PROVIDENCE, R.I -- Simone Melo, of Rehoboth, Mass., was among the many thousands who gathered Sunday morning at the Rhode Island Convention Center for the start of the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fundraising walk. Melo's mother, Elisabete Peixinho, who was also walking, is a survivor of the disease.
"I do it for my mom. See, now you're going to make me cry," said Melo, a hairdresser at the family business, Peixinho's Barber Salon in East Providence.
Joining the women on "Team Peixinho" was Melo's friend, Laura Amaral and her husband George and son Colin, of Blackstone, Mass.
"There's a threat of some showers but I think we're all prepared for it," said Amaral. "If we get a little wet, it's all good."
The 9 o'clock hour struck.
"All right," said Melo.
The te am headed off, into a crowd of walkers wearing pink, the color of the breast-cancer research and treatment cause.
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