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Femara and the Pilot Pen

by Karen Lynch

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I’m not a huge tennis fan (I can count on one finger the number of matches I’ve actually watched). But when a colleague at the Breast Cancer Survival Center here in Fairfield County, CT asked me if I was interested in two comp tickets for survivors sponsored by Femara … I took her up on it because my mother was certain it would be a fantastically fun thing for she and I to do together.

So we went … two survivors, one breast, one ovarian … to the women’s final match at the Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament on Saturday. We were there to witness Svetlana Kuznetsova take the trophy after Agnes Szavay succumbed to her ailing back.

It was exciting, especially at the start … but Szavay was up against a pro who has won over $7 million in prize money to date. The poor girl was exhausted and in pain so she forfeited in the midst of the second set.

I enjoyed watched these two strong women play — but more poignantly, I enjoyed sitting beside my mother and celebrating life, together. Two survivors.


Posted in Companies that Support Breast Cancer Research, General, Off Topic on August 27th, 2007

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