Our guest today is Tova Wolking, an attorney from Oakland, California.  She is reading her piece “Swim” from Wildfire Magazine’s 2021 “Bay Area Young Survivors” issue. In the wake of Tova’s mom passing away, breast cancer took root in her body. She was diagnosed with stage 3, hormone positive breast cancer at age 43.  She also discovered she was positive for the BRCA 2 gene mutation.  This is the story of one woman asking how to find the key to unlocking her own grief about her breast cancer when her mother took so many of those answers with her when she died.  Note of warning for sensitive listeners, this episode touches upon loss and suicide. 

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