Overwhelmed? Overcome! Overflow! Jacqueline Eugenia’s legacy | Afro

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Overwhelmed? Overcome! Overflow! Jacqueline Eugenia’s legacy | Afro

By Mylika Scatliffe AFRO Women’s Health Writer In March 2017 Jacqueline Eugenia Crest, known as “Jackie” to loved ones, was diagnosed with a form of Stage 4 metastatic lung cancer, most often seen in lifelong smokers and Asian women. She was neither. That night in March 2017, her doctors told her husband to gather her […]

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