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Sisters revive breast cancer fundraiser

Do not underestimate the power of 10 ta-tas in one family.
As the founders of the cheekily-named BreastFest, the O’Brien sisters - Anne, Bridget, Megan, Sara and Katie - certainly have made their mark on Athens. Ten years ago, Sara, then an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia, started BreastFest in honor of her mother, Tyanna O’Brien, who lost her battle to breast cancer in 1990. With a silly name and a celebratory approach to fundraising for a life-threatening illness, BreastFest has since grown into a multi-city event that last year raised enough money to open a mammography wing at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. …