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    The power of pink

    Jan 19, 2022 4 minutes
    BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE
    PHOTOGRAPHY DIC LIEW

    The adage that when the going gets tough, the tough get going could have been coined for Western Australian sheep and grain farmers Jennifer and Rob Warburton. As newlyweds, in 2000, they were challenged by a double whammy of Jen’s diagnosis and setbacks with multiple sclerosis (MS) and Rob’s diagnosis and treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

    While both could have been forgiven for crawling under the doona and remaining there forever, they took it in their stride, enduring treatments, which involved arduous 700-kilometre round trips to Perth from their farm near Kojonup in WA’s Great Southern region. Family rallied and helped with seeding while Rob underwent chemotherapy

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