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Zack Tanner
ztanner@post-gazette.com

 

November 4, 2019

Nellie Brown, 6, is reflected in her dresser mirror as she plays with her dolls in the dollhouse she got for her birthday, Wednesday, April 3, 2019, at the Brown family farm straddling Saltlick and Bullskin. Nellie’s parents saved the dollhouse, which was part of their Christmas gifts donated by Toys for Tots, to give to Nellie on her birthday. Living in the shadow of breast cancer, Mary Beth worries about not being there as a mother for Nellie’s formative years as a young woman.