While speaking at a 2009 Prostate Cancer Foundation event, I made a promise to more than 100 of the best prostate cancer researchers of the world: "I will make certain that, in my lifetime, I will get a blue ribbon out there to match every pink ribbon!"

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About half of what my mother and I baked was given to neighbors, tied up with red ribbon and sprigged with holly or mistletoe.

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