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(NEW YORK) A group of moms from across the country celebrated Mother’s Day this year with one wish to find the bone marrow donors who will save their daughters’ lives.
“If she gets the bone marrow transplant, she’ll be a normal baby,” Anessa Haden said of her 8-month-old daughter, True, who has been told by doctors she likely won’t live past the age of 3 without a matching donor. “A bone marrow transplant is literally her hope to a long life.”
True was diagnosed three months ago with congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (CAMT), a rare disease in which bone marrow no longer produces platelets, which are critical to blood clotting and preventing bleeding, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Apologize for corona first : Anti-Asian hate endures on social media
More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic hit, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks are still falling short of fully curbing anti-Asian rhetoric. Listen - 09:45
People hold up signs at a Stop Asian Hate rally in Chicago on March 27. Vincent Johnson/Xinhua via Getty
Shirley Wang s phone wouldn t stop buzzing as the hurtful tweets flooded in. Earlier that day, the 26-year-old Harvard student posted a thread of tweets about anti-Asian racism, prompting more than 100 replies. We must fight anti-Asian racism without fueling anti-Blackness (calls for increased policing are unacceptable), Wang tweeted on Feb. 14.
February 14, 2021
Virginia Dare Van Sciver, 88, of Harbeson passed away peacefully Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Virginia was born in Rising Sun, Md., in 1932, daughter of the late Donald C. and Constance “Connie” Jones Graybeal, wife of the late Donald Van Sciver to whom she was married for 60 years, and mother of the late Jean Marie Van Sciver.
Virginia graduated from Rising Sun High School in 1949 and attended Salisbury State Teachers College. She met Don in 1951, then a seaman at Bainbridge Naval Base, and they married that year. She joined Don when he was transferred to the Key West Naval Base. After Don’s service the couple moved back to Salisbury, Md., then Pittsburgh, Pa., Richmond, Va., and Bayonne, N.J., as Don pursued his education and career. Virginia bore a child in each of those four cities, caring for her husband and young family. In Bayonne she was able to return to education, becoming a beloved private grammar school teacher.