I am definitely showing my age here, but I remember my "Aunt Eva" (not actually related, but super close family friend) had breast cancer when I was little. At the time it was something shameful. It was a sexual issue. It was dirty. Nothing polite people talked about.
A few years later Betty Ford changed that completely. The effect she had on women's health cannot be underestimated. I have been very lucky to be blessed with health, but my mother, and two of my very close friends are survivors of breast cancer.
If you have a friend or mother or sister or wife who has had breast cancer and survived, they probably owe their lives to this woman for the simple act of courage of not hiding that she had it.
RIP Betty Ford, dead at 93.
If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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