It was elegant and creative and beautiful - it's who she is. Her personality always came out in her jewelry.

Cancer ravaged her body, but it never took her spirit away. She was a fighter to the end.

Randi would walk into the cancer center and smile at the other patients. She would always have a hug or smile or nice thing to say to the people who were there.

My promise to her was that I would try to keep life as normal as possible.

We grew up like sisters. My children call her their aunt.

At the office I worked in before that, my boss required all employees to take a personality test that divided us neatly into one of four quadrants: Doers, Creators, Deciders, or Thinkers, categories that would then define our roles in the department. Most of the others were Doers; there were a couple of Deciders, too. I was the only Thinker. My first thought was, I think I need to get out of here.