ENGLAND, Ark. – They say cancer doesn’t discriminate, and at one local flower shop in the small town of England, Arkansas, the two friendly faces who are likely the first to greet you have experienced that first hand.
At England Flowers and Gifts, it is hard not to be happy when you first walk in. Not much brings more joy than fresh flowers and happy faces, but Judy Richardson and Nancy Cagle have been through heartbreaking stories that are eerily similar.
This March will mark 10 years since Richardson, who owns the store, found out she had cancer. Not just any cancer, either. Stage four colon cancer. It was her very first colonoscopy.
“I just said, ‘Is it bad?’ and they just said, “We’ve got to get you to an oncologist,’” Richardson recalled. “I wondered… why me?”
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Little did she know, a few years later, her church friend would find out she had the same thing: stage four colon cancer.
Cagle eventually came to work at the flower shop with Richardson, where they came together to share their best and worst memories of the diagnoses.