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Kudos to Mike Coombes with Kissing The Frog, who converted to a prince the chaotic website ideas of a frog so technologically challenged that its GPS was printed by Rand McNally thirty years ago. For the Florida Writers Association Conference each October in Orlando, I make two thousand Pink Ribbons. I encourage people to use the Pink Ribbon after National Breast Cancer Awareness Month as a bookmark, to always keep a Pink Ribbon close to the heart. Thank you for participating in any event that advances cancer research or awareness. If a cure for cancer is developed it will likely be because breast cancer can easily be talked about, whereas prostate and colon cancers are difficult for some to speak of. |
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The Komen Foundation gave Pink Ribbons to participants in the 1991 race for breast cancer survivors. In 1992, Alexandra Penney, editor of Self magazine, was working on the second National Breast Cancer Awareness Month issue. Evelyn Lauder, Estee Lauder's corporate vice president, was invited to be the guest editor of the NBCAM edition. Penney and Lauder created the idea of a Pink Ribbon, and asked the cosmetics giant to distribute them. |
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