Faces of Relay: Mae Richardson

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Cancer survivor Mae Richardson was interviewed during 2015 Clarendon County Relay for Life. We are rerunning this blurb today in preparation of tonight's Relay for Life.

Summerton resident Mae Richardson said Friday she discovered she had cancer from a dream.

“It wasn’t even my own,” she said. “A cousin had a dream that I had cancer. And then I dreamt about someone else having cancer, and then myself. I felt like something was telling me to go get myself checked.”

Richardson said her cancer was non-specific and non-invasive.

“I had surgery, and that was it,” she said.

She said Relay for Life “means a great deal to me.”

“We all get together and show a lot of love to one another,” she said. “There are kind people out here, and it makes me feel good.”

Clarendon County Relay for Life will be held 6 p.m. to midnight today at Manning High School's Ramsey Stadium. Survivors like Richburg and caregivers are asked to come out and celebrate life and also remember those who lost their battles with various forms of cancer. A luminary ceremony will be held at 9:30 p.m. where names of cancer survivors and those to be remembered will be read aloud over the stadium's loudspeaker.