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When Nicole O’Hara was diagnosed with breast cancer at 29, she had a double mastectomy. The surgery, reconstruction and chemo that followed left her with inflamed scarring across her chest. "To be reminded of those [scars] every time you look in the mirror can be hard," she says. "You're trying to move past that point in your life.” So she decided to change the meaning behind her scars with something more symbolic — a tattoo with special meaning.

I co-reported and produced this video with colleague Morgan McCloy.

Reported and produced by: Meredith Rizzo and Morgan McCloy | Editor: Nancy Shute | Supervising Editor: Andrea Kissack