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Welcome to my personal thoughts and opinions…travels and personal encounters…momentary acquaintances and lifetime connections as I view life through the pink-tinted spectacles of breast cancer.

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May 1, 2007

COMPANY I KEEP

I just found out today that reknowned Filipino film director Marilou Diaz Abaya was diagnosed with Breast Cancer at around the same time as I was. I am adding her to the list of women whose company I "keep", those who have been diagnosed and are or working towards being survivors.


  • Betty Ford - former US First Lady
    Carly Simon - musician
    Cynthia Nixon - stage and tv actress
    Dede Robertson - wife of evangelist Pat Robertson
    Diahann Carroll - singer
    Elizabeth Anania Edwards - lawyer and wife of Senator John Edwards
    Gloria Steinem - activist
    Greta Garbo - actress
    Jacklyn Smith - actress
    Joan Kennedy - former wife of Senator Edward Kennedy
    Kate Jackson - actress
    Kay Warren - wife of Rick Warren
    Kylie Minogue - pop star
    Lynn Redgrave - actress
    Melissa Etheridge - singer
    Nancy Reagan – former US First Lady
    Olivia Newton John - singer
    Peggy Fleming - muitli-awarded skater
    Sandra Day O’Connor - first female US Supreme Court Justice
    Sheryl Crow- rocker
    Shirley Temple Black - actress
    Bibeth Oteza - Filipina actress and activist
    Marilou Diaz Abaya - Filipina Director
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