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Facing Breast Cancer

Facing Breast Cancer

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PLANO, TEXAS — The wake-up call did not come with the cancer diagnosis. Or the double mastectomy.

Or news that cancer had spread to her lymph nodes.

For Noelle LeVeaux, it came 10 days before the first round of chemo. The dishwasher overflowed. Water seeped under the wood laminate floor. She loaded her two young daughters into the family car and left for the nail salon. They would escape reality for a while.

She drove her GMC Acadia down the road, through a red stoplight and into a Chevy Escalade. As airbags deployed and her SUV spun, she thought of how the stoplights seemed out of sequence. She looked at her daughters in the back seat.

In that moment, she realized how much she wanted to live.

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Rough Cut: A raw edit from the Ravens and Cowboys

Rough Cut: A raw edit from the Ravens and Cowboys

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“Rough Cut” is a loose edit from The Baltimore Sun’s photographic coverage of the National Football League. Fanatic fans, marching bands, cheerleaders and lots of game action are just part of the spectacle that is the NFL. This week photojournalists Karl Merton Ferron, Lloyd Fox and Gene Sweeney Jr. photographed the Baltimore Ravens as they beat the Dallas Cowboys 31-29 at M&T Stadium in Baltimore.

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