I instantly thought of you, Mrs. Edwards, when rumors of an affair involving your husband, John, first surfaced.

It is still you and your family that drive me to ask you to use your considerable strength and character to convince your husband to try again.

While a candidate for the highest office in the land, John Edwards showed not only personal recklessness beyond description, as well as an astounding lack of understanding about the media he courted every day.

While you protested in your DailyKos diary that you and your family be allowed to start the healing process, your husband was preparing a “Nightline” interview that addressed few of the still unanswered questions.

For a man who was having an intimate affair with a woman for at least a year, he had no idea how she afforded a multi-million dollar home, why his closest associates regularly sent her checks of $15,000, but is without any doubt that he is not the father of her child, unchallenged by the convenient lack of testing.

The American people have just as little interest in John’s actual affair as they did with President Clinton’s.

There remains, however, an intense interest in how a man who would cheat on his wife in the midst of a Presidential campaign, be so naïve to think the press would not find out, and if it did, accept his description of trash journalism as the last word.

His promises of help for the poor, a new way for the underprivileged, and his seemingly heroic support in what seemed like to many of us, your darkest hour, all seem cheapened by his need to feed his ego.

There will be more to tell, and I fear, much more pain for you and your children, until John Edwards stands up and tells the full truth that he feels he does not owe his supporters that believed in him without reservation.

We have all seen this same tragic play too frequently in the recent past to not know the ending.

Please ask your husband a question for us all, many of us who supported and believed in him.

Ask him if he could be 99% Elizabeth Edwards for a day, and answer the questions again.