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THE PINK-HAT BLUES
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The Boston Globe
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June 30, 2008
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Stop and think
what that cap
may stand for
THURSDAY MORNING I came across the article "Pink hats drive some
Sox fans batty" on boston.com, and had to respond. I am 36 years
old, have lived in Boston my whole life (except for college), and am
a Red Sox fan. Last year I was given a "special" pink hat, one with
a white "B," which I call my unlucky lucky hat. Why? Because it was
given to me by a friend who was at Fenway on Mother's Day last year,
and who bought the hat to support breast cancer research. Why did
she give it to me? Because two months earlier I had been diagnosed
with breast cancer and had just had surgery.
I know many breast cancer survivors hate pink, just as some Sox
fans do, ...
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