In October of 2005, a writer, a resident of the same City, attended one such gathering. In fact, she received in the lobby the materials that she would need to turn-in a press release on that gathering. She also found there something a writer can always use-a pen. What the writer liked most about that pen was the presence on it of a plastic, breast cancer pink ribbon.
Now that was far from the first time that the same writer had come by a free pen. The writer had picked-up many other pens at various community and health-related events. Yet most of those pens had later found their way into the hands of the writer's sons, or into the hands of her husband. Those other pens had had a more masculine look. They had been purple, green, red and black. This new pen did not have those decidedly masculine colors.
The pen with the plastic, breast cancer pink ribbon was in every respect a lady's pen. It was white and pink. It was not the sort of pen that a man would want to carry around. The writer hoped that her new pen would stay on her desk for much longer than her other pens had remained at that same spot.
In fact that writer did have that pen with the plastic, breast cancer pink ribbon for at least 6 months. During that time, no male in the writer's household showed any desire to use the pink and white pen. The writer began to feel like she really had a pen that she could call her own. Then that writer made a foolish mistake.
The writer took the pen with her when she attended a discussion group at the home of some friends. That discussion was at a home where several of the residents were attracted to breast cancer pink ribbons. The writer happened to leave the pen at that home, and she never saw it after that.
As October of 2006 approaches, the same writer looks forward to a meeting with more breast cancer pink ribbons. She is hoping to get a second pen, and a second chance to have a pen that the males in her home will not claim for their own use.
That writer has found a new web site that needs articles about breast cancer. A new pen with a breast cancer pink ribbon would be a great way to get started on such articles. That is why the writer now looks forward to the next Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the next large, local gathering of breast cancer survivors.
Another Saturday of seminars on breast cancer and related issues should give that writer plenty to write about. An afternoon spent meeting many breast cancer survivors would certainly give the writer the motivation needed to overcome any writer's block. A new pen with a plastic, breast cancer pink ribbon would give that writer the perfect implement with which to show her support for those brave breast cancer survivors.