![]() ![]() They received 600 submissions from around the world. Komen Foundation, The Breast Cancer Fund and the American Cancer Society announced a call for entries: art and writing by women who had faced breast cancer. I hope as my 4-year-old son gets older, this is what he remembers of this terrifying time: Mom's art work. I worked on it through chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation, completing it toward the end of treatment in March 1997. So I took the cards and turned them into an enormous collage of support. They turned the contents of the box into a mosaic table for their new home. All that remained was a box of melted glass and silverware. Then I remembered hearing a story about a family who lost their home in a fire. I kept the cards on my mantle until it felt morbid to have them there. The outpouring of support was incredible. After I was diagnosed in September 1996, I received many cards from family and friends, and also from people I didn't know who had heard about me. ![]()
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