Summary
Karen Sheeler of Dayton was 12 when she went to live at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home. Her mother had died of breast cancer and her father couldn't care for the children -- seven of them between the ages of 1 to 15. It was just about the worst thing that could happen to a young girl. But at the orphanage she met a boy who many years later became her husband. Five years ago, at the age of 48, Sheeler faced another devastating hurdle: She had breast cancer, like her mother and older sister before her. Once again, incomparable loss brought a rare gain. Her cancer introduced her to 130 new "sisters" from the Noble Circle, a unique support group for women battling cancer co-founded by eight breast cancer patients in 2003. "Growing up in the orphanage was a harder situation than what
we're going through now," Sheeler said. "We were young, and it was hard to make sense of it all. Now, we focus on our blessings."See the full content of this document
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