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• Anonymous

  ” Show us your……….”

• Anonymous

  Wonderful.  Another breast cancer ‘corsage’ hits the market.  By all means let us display pacifying pink on yet another product.  Do YOU have your “badge of honor?”  Another woman’s life put on end because there is a pink-ribbon acceptance of this ever-increasing disease, despite the millions – is it not now billions? — of dollars raised with essentially no gains whatsoever?  When a disease becomes accepted, indeed, “expected,” it is not going to be prevented. 

  No one should be buying into this at this point in time.  The proof of the profits in the breast cancer business is in the profits. 

  No one talks about the high rate of misdiagnosis that puts women into the death/discovery process due to the level of fear — even expectation — that they are fairly well assured of getting the disease, nor the absolute lack of publicity about how many misdiagnosed women – those who have no evidence of disease at all, but due to the lack of quality standards, and physician fear — the biopsies and surgeries and hell, is very real; nor about how these woman never get the ‘merit corsage’, but are left abandoned.  After all – they should just be happy there was nothing after all.

• Anonymous

  I hope they look real….