00:00I think beauty can be found so many places when you are kind of faced with
00:06something not so beautiful. I think beauty is everything I get to see because it
00:12wasn't guaranteed to me. I'm Erin. I was diagnosed with stage 4. In October it'll
00:17be seven years. I had to have a hysterectomy because my cancer was
00:21estrogen receptor positive which meant that estrogen feeds my cancer. I also
00:26lost the ability to have children and to have my own family. I was never really
00:31angry and I always kind of thought why not me and I was happy it was me and not
00:36my mom or my sisters or my best friend because I knew I could do it. That
00:41doesn't mean there were really hard days or really sad days but for the most part
00:45I feel really lucky to be me. Yes it took things that I kind of identified myself
00:50with being feminine or being healthy and it did take those things away from me
00:55but I like the new me. I like the me that is on the other side of this and is
01:00stronger on the other side. I think every day is a great day. I'm so thankful to
01:05have to have the next day. Not everybody has promised that. You know people spend
01:10their entire life trying to learn that lesson to appreciate the present and be
01:13in the present and you know love your friends and be around the people who love
01:17you and I got to learn that lesson in my 30s. I do I feel thankful for that.
