Before I Say Goodbye

{{Short description|2000 non-fiction book by Ruth Picardie}}

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| image = Book Cover Before I Say Goodbye.jpg

| author = Ruth Picardie

| isbn = 0-8050-6612-8

| pub_date = 1 September 2000

| publisher = Henry Holt and Company

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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

Before I Say Goodbye is a book by Ruth Picardie. It was published in September 2000 by Henry Holt and Company.{{Cite web |date=1 June 2000 |title=Before I Say Goodbye |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ruth-picardie/before-i-say-goodbye/ |website=Kirkus Reviews}} Compiled and edited by her sister and husband, it uses Picardie's newspaper columns and correspondence to tell the story of her life with breast cancer, to which she succumbed in September 1997.