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Hello everybody, my name is Patricia Gutierrez and I would like to start out by saying I pray for all who are reading this article, that they would be blessed in all areas of life, physically, mentally, spiritually and would be encouraged by this awesome story of faith, love, unity and courage. Cancer, unfortunately it’s a word that many of us are all too familiar with.  I personally know seven people who have battled the dreaded disease, most recently my sister-in-law Tricia Velasquez.  Tricia was diagnosed with stage 3C breast cancer at age 31!!!  Yes, 31, not the typical age to be concerned with breast cancer right?  So we all thought.  I remember always hearing to start getting mammograms at age 40.  So when Tricia gave us the heartbreaking news of stage 3C breast cancer we were pretty much all in a state of shock. You see this all started in October of  06, Tricia felt pain and a small lump in her breast, but at age 31 she didn’t...
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