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A support team, Taco Bell and trust: How Washington's Ron Rivera faced cancer without missing a game

ASHBURN, Va. -- Before he received his dosage of radiation and underwent chemotherapy, Washington Football Team coach Ron Rivera received a simple but meaningful greeting at the front desk of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Fairfax, Virginia.

It was an everyday gesture in a situation that wasn't ordinary.

Linda Carter, who has been at the front desk in the institute's radiology department for 18 years, serves as a de facto aunt for the cancer patients waiting in her lobby. She was part of the community that developed around Rivera as he underwent cancer treatment.