Dear Sir,

Please accept this letter in the intent that it was written, as an opportunity to teach and offer a different perspective.

Upon seeing the picture and reading the article about the breast cancer awareness shirts worn by the ladies of Pink Salon, I was offended and very upset.

I recently underwent a double mastectomy after detecting a lump in my breast; a decision I never dreamt I would have to make, and not easily done.

As I get “accustomed” to the vision of scars across my chest and the uneasiness of undressing in a public changing room, I find no whimsy in any of it.

Ladies of Pink Salon, I thank you for your support and only ask that you be a little more sensitive in your demonstration of such.

To the RG, at times you have been called out about the insensitivity of your published stories; not everything is a “story”.

Sometimes the humanity in saying no to an article speaks volumes.

ROMEL WOOLRIDGE