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- PEOPLE, Page 73A Sister Is Saved
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- By MICHAEL QUINN/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Your daughter is dying of leukemia, and no one can be
- found with the compatible bone marrow needed to save her life.
- Conceiving another child seems the only way to provide a
- suitable donor. Would you do it? Of course. The ensuing debate
- over medical ethics made the 19-year-old daughter, Anissa Ayala,
- a media celebrity and the subject of a TIME cover (June 17,
- 1991). Now there is a happy ending: the transplanted marrow from
- her baby sister Marissa, conceived for that purpose, has
- apparently saved Ayala. She now plans to marry her longtime
- boyfriend and start a support group for other cancer patients.
- Says Ayala: "My family was my support group, but a lot of people
- don't have the closeness my family and I have."
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