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Byline: Jessie Milligan
AUSTIN, Texas _ Molly Ivins' prescription for recovery is not just the cancer drug tamoxifen washed down with black coffee from a mug that says "Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History."
It's humor that's her strong medicine. It's humor chased by her undying belief that no matter how rotten things are, they can always be made better. That's what keeps her going.
Nine dark months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment are behind her. A radical mastectomy to try to halt cancer is complete. It's a spring morning at Ivins' Austin home, and things are starting to look up. Her doctor has been telling her she has a 70 percent ...