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...doctors discovered that the pale and distressingly listless baby had CF. The disease strikes one in 1,000 children, is always fatal, but ravages its victims first. Girls suffer more than boys and die at a faster rate. To prolong Alex's life, Deford and his wife Carol daily had to hold her upside down and pound her chest and back to loosen the life-threatening mucus in her lungs. "Two thousand times I had to beat my sick child," her father recalls, "make her hurt and cry and plead - 'No, not the down ones, Daddy...
...said, "Oh, Daddy, wouldn't this have been great?" writes Deford. "After we had hugged each other, she left the room, because, I knew, she wanted to let me cry alone." At the end of her last stay at Yale-New Haven Hospital, when her ordeal with CF had been compounded by arthritis, pneumonia and collapsing lungs, Alex said to a nurse, "I'm going home to die now, but don't you tell my Mommy or Daddy because it'll upset them...
While guilt-ridden parents, who unwittingly carry the disease, divorce at several times the national average because of CF's agonies, Deford and his wife preserved their marriage with an unspoken agreement that both would not cry at the same time. After Alex died in his arms, Deford's guilt turned to futile anger and finally to a transforming admiration for his courageous daughter. "It frightens me most," he concludes, "that I will meet some great test in my life - maybe one for my life, as she did - and I will not be able to do as well...
...Ties count 1/2 win, 1/2 loss First Game Crimson 8, Big Green 3 HARVARD ab r h bi Weller cf 4 1 2 1 River a 3b 2 2 0 0 Bauer ss 4 1 0 0 Martelli c 2 2 2 5 Farrell 1b 4 0 0 0 Allard rf 3 1 2 1 McNamara dh 3 0 1 1 D-Cesare 2b 4 0 1 0 Vierra if 3 1 1 0 Total 29 8 9 8 DARTMOUTH ab r h bl LaveryPete cf 3 0 0 0 Karol dh 3 0 1 2 LaveryPat...
...Hebert, Marchese HBP--Martelli by Hebert Second Game Crimson 12, Big Green 6 HARVARD ab r h bi Weller cf 4 2 1 1 Rivera 3b 4 0 0 0 Bauer ss 6 2 3 3 Martelli c 5 2 3 1 Farrell 1b 5 2 3 1 Alfard rf 3 1 1 2 McNamara dh 2 0 0 0 D-Cesare 2b 3 1 1 0 Vierra If 4 1 1 1 Schindler dh 2 1 2 2 Kay ph 1 0 0 0 Lyman 2b 0 0 0 0 Total 39 12 15 11 DARTMOUTH...