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Breathe Easy. It's really that Easy.

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Disclaimer: I have partnered with Breathe Easy Maine.  All opinions expressed in my post are my own.    Several years ago, well, 12 years, 6 months and 8 days ago, my life changed forever and left a gaping whole in my heart. My mom died from small cell lung cancer. The type of cancer one gets from years of smoking and damaging their body. As a child, I feared that day would come.  I hated thinking about it... losing my mom to smoking. I would push those thoughts down way deep with hopes that my greatest fears would never come true. Only 3 months before my mom died. Then it came, September 15th. My dad called me at work to let me know that they had been to a doctor and that the pneumonia the doctors thought she had was actually lung cancer.  The doctor had given her three to six months to live.  In actuality, she died less than a month after diagnosis. My mom and dad welcoming the only grandchild she would meet. Smoking tore apart my family. It stole my mom, my so