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Book - Promise Me by Nancy Brinker
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Price: $25.99
Item Code: Book/promise
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Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer, by Nancy Brinker, is a fascinating account of how Brinker's sister's death inspired her to start Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and of the profound impact this organization has had in the world of breast cancer.
Inside front jacket:
Suzy and Nancy Goodman were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Then Suzy was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; three agonizing years later, at thirty-six, she died.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. The Goodman girls were raised in postwar Peoria, Illinois, by parents who believed that small acts of charity could change the world. Suzy was the big sister-- the homecoming queen with an infectious enthusiasm and a generous heart. Nancy was the tomboy with an outsized sense of justice who wanted to right all wrongs. The sisters shared makeup tips, dating secrets, plans for glamorous fantasy careers. They spent one memorable summer in Europe discovering a big world far from Peoria. They imagined a long life-- one in which they'd grow old together surrounded by children and grandchildren.
Suzy's diagnosis shattered that dream...
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Pretty is What Changes is a timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decdecide how to live?
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