Through all that and the chemotherapy that followed, she never lost the dream of giving birth to a child that she and her husband, Tom, would treasure for the rest of their lives. I've wanted a baby so bad for so long. So I've learned to never say never. I wrote a newspaper series about Paula and Cathy and a dozen other women whose lives had been touched by breast cancer. And we are.
Breast cancer has no boundaries.
But there are degrees of separation. As much as I felt for the women I wrote about, I thought that I could never really know their tears. And I surely didn't want to. Theirs was not a sorority anyone would want to pledge. It's three years since I met Cathy and Paula and our lives have changed in ways that make a mockery of the odds.