Pink Ribbon Collection (Survivors of Breast Cancer)

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You, Me, and Estee Lauder  |  by Joanna Anderson

Angry after a mastectomy, a patient dismisses a donated cosmetics box and the pink ribbon as corporate marketing. Joanna Anderson shifts the encounter when the cheerful nurse reveals her own surgical scar and presses the patient’s hand to a living heartbeat, making survival – not merchandise – their shared emblem. “You, Me and Estee Lauder” When Joanna feels she has been abandoned and isolated in her desolation, Big Ruby, the tough nurse in the cancer ward, shows her she is not alone.

Lifting My Shirt  |  by Patricia Fontaine

Two weeks after surgery, a woman repeatedly confronts the absence of her breast and a doctor’s careless judgment of the scar. Patricia Fontaine follows her from shock and grief toward a private act of tenderness, as she touches the healing site and recognizes her remaining body as love, apology, and prayer. “Lifting My Shirt” A woman grieves for the loss of part of her, a part she loved and sacrificed to save her own life