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When Other Women Have This Same Operation, It Doesn't Make Any Headlines. But The Fact That I Was The Wife Of The President Put It In Headlines And Brought Before The Public This Particular Experience I Was Going Through. It Made A Lot Of Women Realize That It Could Happen To Them. I'm Sure I've Saved At Least One Person Maybe More.

-Betty Ford

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When Other Women Have

Betty Ford

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When Other Women Have This Same Operation, It Doesn't Make Any Headlines. But The Fact That I Was The Wife Of The President Put It In Headlines And Brought Before The Public This Particular Experience I Was Going Through. It Made A Lot Of Women Realize That It Could Happen To Them. I'm Sure I've Saved At Least One Person Maybe More.

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