Three… three of them

For Sherri Ullom and Shelley Scoville, the word "cousin" has never seemed quite big enough. They are more like sisters.

Their mothers, Bobbi and Becky, are identical twins, so Sherri, Shelley and Sherri's brother, Bill Ewen, saw one another nearly every day while growing up.

Additionally, both Sherri and Shelley emphasized that genetic testing showed about one-quarter of their DNA is the same, making them more similar to siblings than cousins.

“We say sisters, just because we grew up together, and it was like having two moms,” they said.

So perhaps it was fitting that when one of the most frightening chapters of their lives began, they would face that together, too. What no one could have imagined was just how many of them would have to endure it at the same time.

First came Shelley; then six months later, Sherri; and approximately six months after that, Bobbi. In the span of about one year, three women in the same close-knit family were fighting breast cancer….READ MORE…