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LaBelle shares the life lessons she learned from the death of her three sisters.
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00:00Barbara Beauty she died of cancer and Vivian and Jackie died of cancer. Jackie the day before she
00:17died she asked me to make her egg sandwich and I just gotten off the road and the hospital was
00:22five minutes from my house and I said to my aunt because Jackie couldn't speak very well then I
00:27said Aunt Hattie may tell her that I'll make it tomorrow. The next day I made the sandwich I said
00:33Hattie I'm on my way she said don't rush your sister just passed and I held that and I still hold it
00:42because it was such a minor thing for me just make a sandwich because she loved the way I
00:47cloaked. I miss my sister Jackie like crazy. I adopted her son Billy and her daughter Stacey and I sang at
01:01her funeral and right after that I did my video of if you asked me to and the tears were tears because
01:10that was the day that her casket was closed and it was just but I learned a lot live your life today
01:20because you have no idea what can happen in the next hour of this day you know so love the ones
01:27you love but let them know you love them she knew I loved her but I was busy touring and I was too tired
01:32to make that sandwich that day so do it now do everything now you can for your family I'm holding
01:41on to my son Zuri and my adopted kids because we're all the family I have and life is strange
01:51so take advantage of each day like it's the last day of your life
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