| In 1982, Shirley Ann Flierl unwittingly found herself and the leading edge of the trend toward women diagnosed at a younger ages with breast cancer. At 37, she was "too young" and "too small" to have breast cancer. The brutal reality Shirley and her husband, Peter, faced that Fall was a stage 3,
aggressive metastatic malignancy, that had already spread to innumerable lymph nodes. Her tumor was so large and so deep into her chest that it could not be completely removed. |
 | Peter Flierl is a graduate of Horbart College with a B.A in English his Master in Clinical Social Work from Louisiana State University. He has been an administrator and program innovator for more than 30 years specializing in communications and community health. |
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