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Zack Tanner
ztanner@post-gazette.com

 

November 4, 2019

Mary Beth Brown, left, 37, gives her daughter Nellie, 6, a hug goodnight as her sons Oliver, center, 7, and Anthony, right, 8, play before bed, Wednesday, April 3, 2019, at the Brown family farm straddling Saltlick and Bullskin. Pain and exhaustion from Mary Beth’s breast cancer prevents her from walking upstairs to tuck the children into bed, a ritual her husband has taken over.