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Title: Wedding gowns give life to cancer victims' dreams.(News)
Author: Tona Kunz
Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) (Newspaper)
Date: October 25, 2003
Publisher: Paddock Publications
Page: 1Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Byline: Tona Kunz Daily Herald Staff Writer
Melanie Oliver flew into Chicago from Alabama to buy a wedding dress in Itasca.
Sure, she could have perused stores by her home in Birmingham, but the values at the Brides Against Breast Cancer sale couldn't be beat. Her $400 gown and plane ticket cost less than the dresses she eyed in local department stores.
Plus, the purchase served as a memorial of sorts to her grandmother who survived a double mastectomy.