Jill Biden recalls the year four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer

Biden wrote in her memoir, “Where the Light Enters,” about the shock she’d felt that at the time that cancer, the same cancer, had run rampant through all of these “young, otherwise healthy women.” She visited and drove them to appointments, but nothing could stop what was happening to Winnie. She’d gone to Winnie’s home, which had become her hospice, one afternoon, and sat there on her couch with her friend, who had grown pale and thin, with a scarf wrapped around her head in place of the hair she’d lost in chemotherapy, struggling not to cry.