FORT WAYNE, Ind. _ The warmth felt in the hands _ and hearts _ of two people chatting over cups of coffee hasn't been replaced by high-tech e-mails, text messages and cell phone calls. The coffee connection has moved some from neighbor to friend, some from small ideas to entrepreneurial success, still others from friendship to marriage.
For John and Kim Richards, founders and owners of Higher Grounds, coffee has been their livelihood since 1996. But today, it is much more. Coffee has brought to them a circle of friends _ and strangers _ who are surrounding them with love, support and prayers as they go through the most difficult journey of their lives.
Kim Richards, 38, has an aggressive form of invasive breast cancer. The lump was found in July while she was breast-feeding the couple's daughter, Morgan, now 9 months old.
"I figured it was probably a clogged milk duct," Kim Richards said. She had an ultrasound and needle biopsy. The room they were ushered into for the results was as non-benign as the news.
"They took us into the office with the carpet and overstuffed chair and tissue box in it," John Richards said. "I saw the words 'poorly differentiated invasive carcinoma,'" words neither had ever said before.
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