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Linda Borton, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, is pictured in Arlington Heights on Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Borton learned Maggie Daley was also diagnosed with cancer on the day Borton started her chemotherapy. Daley died on Thursday after a long fight with cancer. ( Keri Wiginton/ Chicago Tribune)
On the day Chicago?s first lady announced that she had breast cancer in 2002, Linda Borton of Arlington Heights started her chemotherapy treatments for the same affliction.
Though Borton, a health executive, didn?t know Maggie Daley, she knew they were going through a shared traumatic experience, and immediately felt a kinship with this strong, positive woman.
?I knew I certainly was not alone,? Borton said, as she reflected on Daley?s death Thursday evening from complications of that cancer. ?I wanted to write her a note, just to say I?d been diagnosed myself and to try to send her some words of encouragement.?
Read more at Chicago Tribune.
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