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Listen every other Wednesday when April Stearns and the writers of Wildfire Journal & Writing Community share their experiences of being diagnosed with breast cancer under 50. The Burn is about telling cancer stories like you’ve never read - or heard - before.
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Time with Rachel Van Stratton-Kirk (opens the original)
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Rachel Van Stratton-Kirk is a medical device marketing leader from Orange County, California. She was diagnosed at 35 with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) not long after her initial stage I diagnosis. Rachel is the third generation of her family to receive a breast cancer diagnosis. In this episode Rachel reads her essay “Time” from the 2023 “Five Years & Counting” issue of Wildfire Magazine. It is a piece about beating statistics and the lightness of embracing flat closure. April and Rachel will
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