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Giving blood many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liza who was suffering
from a disease and needed a blood transfusion from her five-year-old
brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had
developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness. The doctor
explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he
would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate
for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes, I'll
do it if it will save Liza." As the transfusion progressed, he lay in
bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the colour
returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I
start to die right away?" Being young, the boy had misunderstood the Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give her ALL his blood
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