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Michelle,

I feel your pain. I never wanted to be a member of a breast cancer group but here I am. It's not what I wanted out of life but I sure as hell can't change it. All I can do right now is fight this dreadful disease with all my might. By the way, I'm Irish and I don't celebrate St. Patricks Day. Actually, in Ireland it's a Holy Day. Only in America is it so celebrated. When I lived in Ireland my nephew who was in college and a friend of his came to visit me for St. Patricks Day. They thought that would be the best place to celebrate. Boy, were they shocked! I made sure they weren't disappointed as I had been living there for 3 years and knew all the "good" places to go. I took them out and they had a blast but came back with a different view of celebrating St. Patrick's Day. We all have to hang is this thing together. This is where we can come and vent, scream, cry, whatever - get it out of our system for a while. We are the ones that live with a daily reminder that we have cancer and that our lives have drastically changed due to it.