In October other than Halloween, haunted houses, and rotten teeth, it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Every three minutes a person is diagnosed with breast cancer and although it is more common in women, men can get diagnosed as well. I am aware that there have been articles on breast cancer before, but of my knowledge, there has never been an article on a person who has been dramatically affected because of breast cancer even though they weren't diagnosed. This is my story.
It seems like just yesterday I heard the news that made me break down. My mother had cancer, more specifically, breast cancer. Tears streamed down my face as excruciating images of my mother dying raced through my mind. Growing up, I thought that this could never happen to me. I thought that I would be the last person on earth to get in a car accident, to have my leg chopped off from a ride at Disneyland, or for my mother to have cancer, but this was happening to me, this was reality.
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