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By Yoli Origel, as told to Jo Cavallo  / July 10, 2023

I Didn’t Want My Past to Become My Future

When I felt a large mass in my left breast as I was drying off from a shower on Thanksgiving Day, in 2007, I instinctively knew it was cancer. My mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 38, just 7 years older than I was at the time, and died 4 years later. I was 6 when she was...