Posed for the Cure

The 11 women - all in their 60s and 70s, all grandmothers, all living in the same neighborhood off Jordan Creek Parkway - had met each other within the past couple of years. ...Two of the women had survived breast cancer. One had a son who survived breast cancer. Another had an aunt who'd survived. A fifth had a sister who'd survived breast cancer as well as a mother and grandmother who had died from the disease.

Then, about a year ago, came a bright idea.

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Above information from the Des Moines Register.