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		<title>Mucho Macho Man and his trainer: a Derby story with heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(CNN) &#8212; Each morning about 5, every morning without fail, Kathy Ritvo is at the track, always the most dependable 100-to-1 shot on the grounds. On the backside &#8212; that musky, muddy village where the horses live &#8212; she finds life, too. &#8220;I don&#8217;t miss any days,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I love it. It keeps me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday brings both hope and uncertainty for transplant patient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When he takes the Great Basin Brewing Company stage for a special Sat., March 5, 2011 show that falls on his 49th birthday, singer-songwriter and transplant patient Brother Dan Palmer will naturally reflect on the dichotomy of two prevailing themes in his life: hope and uncertainty, a precarious, dare-to-dream way of living. Almost two years after liver failure led to three near-death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need for Blood and Organ Donors Continues to Grow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every single adult in the United States is carrying around the raw materials to save at least one life, and possibly more than one. Donation of organs, blood, bone marrow and even the stem cells contained in umbilical cord blood can help heal tens of thousands of people afflicted with terrible diseases, health officials say. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A family who lost a life waiting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donor awareness has become an important cause in our family. Not because we are a donor family or a recipient family, but because we are a family who lost a life waiting.  My son, MacKenzie, died February 16th while waiting for a heart transplant. MacKenzie was 13 years old. He was born with a heart defect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen Works to Raise Organ Donor Awareness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lizzy Benson is spending her senior year at Wooster High School on a mission to save lives.  Benson, 18, has been working to get the word out to students and the community at large about becoming an organ donor. It&#8217;s her senior project and also her Girl Scout Gold Award project, but it&#8217;s also personal. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Special Angel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My greatest fear after Kristen&#8217;s passing was that she would be forgotten.  The 13-year-old who danced, played the violin, quoted Shakespeare in everyday conversation, who sat nervously in a Paris restaurant, practicing in her head, so that she might order, by herself, in French.  A young girl who, even when ill, remained in perpetual motion: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetransplantnetwork.com/our-blog/a-gift-of-compassion/</link>
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		<title>A new liver. A new life. A triathlete is born</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My education regarding organ donation came fast and furiously, and after I had received the gift of life.   The pink dot has always been on my driver’s license; it seemed like “the right thing to do”.  I had no idea the implications of that simple dot.  I had no idea of the size of the [...]]]></description>
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