Columnist shares her mother's ordeal more than 30 years ago There were three particularly important women diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1970s: Betty Ford, Happy Rockefeller and my mom. One evening in the fall semester of my junior year in college, I was called to the pay phone positioned in the entranceway of my dorm. It was my dad. He explained that mom was in the hospital. She had gone in that morning to have a breast biopsy, but when the doctors discovered cancer, they proceeded with a radical mastectomy. I wasn't the only one caught off guard. When my mom woke up from surgery, she heard the news for the first time, too. Over Christmas break, mom was still recuperating. She and dad drove me back to college in late January. Walking across campus to my dorm, she linked her arm through mine the way older people...
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