![]() ![]() “That was the sort of innocent mischief we used to get into that made us feel like a couple of outlaws and would have us rolling with laughter.” Maass Kinnally recalls, “and then Susan would try to crawl across the floor in front of the snack counter and slip into the R movie without being spotted, while I slinked behind her worrying about getting caught. “We would have our parents drop us off at the movie theater at the Palm Beach Mall to see a PG movie,” Ms. Susan admitted in her memoir she was “quasi-incorrigible” and once turned back the clocks at school so they could go to lunch an hour earlier. They filled their junior-high days with cheerleading, band and the swim team – and goofy pranks. “I was a little more nerdy and had more angst,” Nancy says, “and she was a bit more free-spirited and mischievous.” Maass Kinnally says, with Nancy providing a bit of balance to Susan’s natural exuberance. They had the same silly sense of humor, Ms. She found her lifelong best friend – Nancy Maass Kinnally – in seventh grade at Palm Beach Public School. She dedicated her book to Stephanie, “whom God divined to be my sister.” Raised in West Palm Beach, where her dad owned Lewis Pharmacy and Sims Pharmacy, Susan became little sister to Stephanie, who was two years older. ![]() They infused their blond-and-blue-eyed bundle with discipline and duty and a love of the water. Spencer-Wendel acknowledged that her likelihood of success was surely boosted by her mother and father, Tee and Tom Spencer, who adopted her shortly after her birth in Fort Lauderdale on Dec. She was a straight-A student, too, voted “Most Likely to Succeed. Spencer-Wendel grew up sun-kissed, athletic and popular – the peppy drum major of Forest Hill High School’s Class of 1984. No matter what happens to you, accept nature.” That is the fundamental message,” she said in March 2013, shortly before the book was released. This gift – the ability to stay content in the face of death - is the lesson of her memoir. When she was diagnosed in June 2011, she made her lifelong best friend, Nancy Maass Kinnally, promise: “We will laugh more than we cry.” In the end, the muscles of her body could do almost nothing – yet, somehow, she could still smile. ![]()
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