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Obama Day Memories 11
Austin style-maker Gail Chovan remembers:
On the day of Obama’s Inauguration, I had just seen my oncologist. As I sat in the waiting room, ready for my first chemo treatment, Obama was taking his oath of office.
Everyone in the room stood up. There we were — cancer patients, their families, the nurses, all perched to start on a journey in our lives that no one could have possibly imagined a year or even several months before.
We cheered, we hugged, we cried. I then moved on into the infusion room where, for the next three hours, I received my chemo treatment for breast cancer and watched the festivites from my recliner as the toxic chemicals lulled me to sleep.
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