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12/11/2004: "New Look"

Diana had a haircut yesterday, It's been about two years since she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She took a leave of absence from her job in the nursery school and for months I didn't see her. She came back in September of 2003, and I have no clue what she went through. She looked awful. Somehow she made it through every day. When she came back to school this fall her hair had come back in, curlier than before, and it was getting long enough that she could tie it back. She looks good. Yesterday she had her first haircut as a survivor. I'm glad her hair is growing and she had to cut it. It means she's alive.