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HOME Local News Business Opinions High School Sports College Sports Pro Sports Sport Columnists Oakland Lifestyles CLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVES Home 'Love cannot just stop' Saturday, February 11, 2006 E-mail Print 'Love cannot just stop'Web-posted Feb 11, 2006By JERRY WOLFFE Of The Oakland Press BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Mirella Panozzo vividly recalls the last few years of her husband's life.

              Advertisement               She remembers sadly how Carl's 6-foot, 175-pound frame dwindled to just skin and bones and how cancer took his right lung and left him in excruciating pain just before his death Aug.

25, 2003.

He died at age 62, three years after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma.

But the Bloomfield Hills woman says one thing never changed, even after his death.

"Love cannot just stop," she says.

"I remember, at the very beginning, someone told us there are many cases when cancer hits someone in the family - a husband or wife - there's a divorce because it's too much and one of them can't take it.

With us, it was different.

"We got closer." So, to honor her husband of 25 years this Valentine's Day, she's trying to make the public more aware of the cancer that claimed his life.

She said she's trying to raise mo...

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