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Roughly 100 people die every day of breast cancer in the U.S. — and virtually all of these deaths are from metastatic breast cancer. That's individual people — moms, daughters, sisters, friends — multifaceted women of which cancer is just one thing, not everything. We are telling the stories of these women who have found strength in their sense of self, power in their beauty, and who refuse to let an incurable, deadly disease tell their story for them. Meet Linda.
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00:01I think people think well you don't look sick or someone I haven't seen in a really
00:05long time will say wow you look really good and I in my head I think well what
00:11did you expect did you think that was really bad my name is Linda I was
00:16diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003 it came back in 2006 and it's now in my
00:22liver there's always that fear that is in the back of my mind and I try to not let
00:29it out of its box very often and when I do I just have to feel it I am my
00:33own
00:33worst nightmare I think beauty comes with it from within who they are as a
00:38person their kindness their warmth to other people I like to play with makeup
00:43it's fun I love bright color lipstick it makes me feel powerful I looked in the
00:48mirror and I didn't look sick and that helped me go out into my day my eyebrows
00:53were one of my concerns because when I had chemotherapy the first time they
00:58didn't really grow back they kind of grew back patchy and it's and I know when I
01:03look in the mirror that I don't look at the rest of my face I just see my
01:06eyebrows so it was nice to have eyebrows

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