What Would It Take for You to March for a Cure? You know that breast cancer is a serious and all-too-common disease (affecting about one woman in eight) and that more research on it is needed. That is an intellectual understanding. But when emotions combine with intellect, as happens in adulthood, the combination leads to action. That happened to Gabrielle Union when her close friend was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at age 32. She moved dialectically from abstraction to despair and then to advocacy, first for her friend and then for an entire cause.

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