We’ve got pink socks, pink pens, pink purses and other pink trinkets too. Keep Talking I’m Diagnosing You Shirt! But most importantly, we’ve got MAMA – and given all that she has faced in her life, she has persisted – and as you have come to know, we’re all about celebrating HER and recognizing the ways she’s persevered! Even without this picture, it should come as no surprise that my mama is a fighter! She discovered she had breast cancer back in 2009, at the age of 76 at a routine doctors appointment.