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Contributed by: Ryan Parker on 3/7/2008

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For a woman who has lived and taught in Englewood all her life, learning how to heal from what she considers the murder of her husband, is something no one can ever teach her.

Judy Cain stills lives in Englewood, and has taught at Clayton Elementary School for 26 years, both guiding and touching the lives of the countless children who have come through her classroom.

"Family is the most important thing to me; the school and all the children I have taught, and their parents, have always been like family to me," Cain said.

The happiness in every moment of life, and the children in her classroom, are what Cain holds most vital to herself.Her highest priority is making sure that all the children she teaches know how important and special they are.

"Nothing is ever about me, it's always about the kids; my kids," Cain said.

For the woman who has touched the lives of so many in her town, it seems unfair to all who know her that her life has been forever altered by tragedy.

While on a motorcycle with her husband, Jim Cain, in 2005, a drunk driver hit the couple with his car killing Jim, and leaving her with severe injuries.

The driver who hit the couple had eight pervious DUI's, of which Cain clams he never spent a day in jail for committing.

"I call him the drunk, that's all he will ever be to me, and no matter how long he stays in prison it will never make up for Jim's life, ever," Cain said.

The driver was sentenced to eleven years in prison, which he will only have to serve five of with good behavior, which inferiorities Cain.

"He is a murderer, when he drove drunk all those times he was a premeditated murderer, that's all there is to it," Cain said.

Although she remembers nothing from the accident, Cain said that staying in bed, and never coming out of her house again because of her loss, was never an option she would have considered.

"I knew I had to keep living life to the fullest, everyday, I couldn't give up because giving up doesn't help anyone. Life, as a whole, is bigger and greater than me, so I have to keep on," she said.

Her husband had three sons from a previous marriage, and she has a son and a daughter from her previous marriage, but they were all family, and she said all the children lost a father.

'He was a wonderful man who meant so much too so many. He touched every life that he came in contact with," Cain said.

Jim coached soccer and volunteered for Boy Scouts among many other things, and if a child's family could not afford for them to play soccer, the two would pay for them, she said.

"Living is the most important part of any day, and if we could help anyone, especially a child, we would," Cain said.

All the injuries she sustained the day of the accident have since completely healed, except for one; a broken heart.

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