
'I love them more than my chest' —
Allison Gilbert and her mother, Lynn, in 1995 on the day Gilbert got engaged. Her mother died two months later from ovarian cancer.

'I love them more than my chest' —
Gilbert at age 5 or 6 with her mother on a ferryboat.

'I love them more than my chest' —
Gilbert, her husband, Mark, and their children, Jake and Lexi, at a birthday celebration.

'I love them more than my chest' —
Gilbert and her husband, Mark, near their home in Westchester County, New York.

'I love them more than my chest' —
Gilbert's Aunt Ronnie and Gilbert's daughter, Lexi. Her aunt died from breast cancer in 2008, four months after the diagnosis.

'I love them more than my chest' —
Gilbert and her husband, Mark, at a basketball game.

'I love them more than my chest' —
Gilbert's children, Jake and Lexi, in Tikal, Guatemala -- the last family vacation before Gilbert's surgery.

