Iheard it from a handful of people…“I can’t do another one of these.”

It was November and this was the fifth or sixth wake they had attended. But this one was very different. It was for Cara Liander, a truly innovative and industrious human being, whom you might have read about in the Advance .

I wasn’t close to Cara although I had worked with her on several Staten Island Shakespeare productions and she was my daughter-in-law’s maid of honor. Many dear friends had formed a close relationship with her through Cara’s various organizations. Cara’s reach was wide and took in many kinds of communities. The theater community was the one I belonged to.

The day we found out, her “theater family” gathered at the Empire Outlets. Tears were shed, comfort given, stories shared. The gift was, now,

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