Elizabeth Edwards has ties to Western PA

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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_202729.html

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee, is no stranger to Pittsburgh.
In fact, Edwards and her family used their grandmother's home on Wallingford Street, Oakland, as a permanent address and visited often while they moved to Japan, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Washington D.C. during their father's naval career.

So it was especially significant when Democratic presidential contender John Kerry -- whose wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, owns an estate in Fox Chapel -- chose Pittsburgh to announce the selection of U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina as his running mate, said Jay Anania, a filmmaker and New York University professor and brother of Elizabeth Edwards.

"It has such resonance in our family, so it was especially nice. It just felt very appropriate for us," he said.

"I never lived there, but I visited millions of time," Anania said. "All of our cousins grew up there -- the group of cousins we were closest with."

And dad played football for Pitt.

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1. that is too cool