Twenty years later, Katie Couric says the death of her first husband ... And she sort of had tears in her eyes and said, ‘I got screened because of you,’ and she had, I think, early cancer ...

More than two decades later, she still gets tears in her eyes when she talks about him ... For more from Katie Couric, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, or subscribe ...

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