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Miss D.C. Allyn Rose on her decision to opt for a double mastectomy after Miss America pageant

Allyn Rose’s father first suggested the mastectomy when she was a freshman in college. It was a couple years after her mother had succumbed to breast cancer; genetic testing and a long, sad family history of early deaths indicated that Rose, too, was at a high risk.

 

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