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Upon her return to Los Angeles, the Your Friends and Neighbors <\/em>star\u2014who shares kids Frances<\/strong>, 19, Molly<\/strong>, 15, and Henry<\/strong>, 11, with husband David Benioff<\/strong>\u2014learned that her illness was thankfully \u201chormone-receptor-positive\u201d and \u201cHER2-negative,\u201d giving her a brief moment of feeling \u201chappier than I\u2019d been pre-diagnosis.\u201d Her MRI later revealed a second mass in the same breast, which was eventually determined to be benign and would not require chemotherapy or a double mastectomy.<\/p>\n Amanda concluded her essay by describing her bittersweet farewell with her mom\u2014who battled Parkinson\u2019s disease\u2014offering comfort in her final moments.<\/p>\n \u201cThe morphine was taking forever to kick in, and she was looking at the ceiling and whimpering, so I climbed onto her rented hospital bed to get in her line of vision,\u201d Amanda recalled. \u201cWe locked eyes and she quieted down, and then she and I continued to stare at each other for what felt like several minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n