Delivering the news, Barbara Weber

Interviewee: Barbara Weber. Barbara Weber talks about delivering the news.

And I said "well as you might expect, Vicki, since you have breast cancer you do have the markers that suggest that you have the gene. But Denise you don't, it looks like you don't have what it is that's in your family." And everyone just starts to cry you know, Vicki was crying and Denise was crying and you know everybody was just crying it was just ... it was just amazing it was all things sort of all wrapped up together that I couldn't believe that this had happened at a time when we never really ... we were just thinking about finding the gene you know we weren't thinking about this kind of drama. And they weren't thinking that they were gonna get anytime anything like that anytime soon.

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