My name is Doug Haberstroh, and this is the story of my wife Keri, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 at the age of 25.
In this message to friends and family, Keri reflects on the past year since her breast cancer diagnosis in a poem. The funny thing about the poem, or at least the funny thing to me, is that I never saw this poem until a friend put all her e-mails together for me in a scrapbook.
When I went through the scrapbook and finally came upon the poem I lost it and...
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