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Christina Crosby is twice blessed. She just may get to save one life in the course of giving birth to another. Her cousin Bobby Cooper, 33, learned last spring that he has a rare form of leukemia and might be a candidate for a stem-cell transplant. Duke is one of about a dozen hospitals and blood centers in the country that is collecting blood from umbilical cords and using the cells to treat cancer patients. So Christina has agreed to donate her cord blood, in hopes of raising the odds that her cousin will find a match when...
Debts and bills soon added up, and the $200 Tahmili had brought from Iran, coupled with the $3000 he owed his cousin, proved to be too much. Tahmili dropped out of college...
Every other week, Castellano, Tahmili and Tahmili's wife and cousin make triple batches of assorted pastries to take to New York. When the small store is stacked waist-high with boxes of Persian baklava and Napoleons, Tahmili loads them into his van, drives them to New York and drops them off at the eleven stores that he works with...
Though he "wasn't going to become a baker," Tahmili says that opinion changed when his cousin pointed out an old shoe repair shop in Watertown...
More than anything else, an extreme sense of isolation characterized my night. I recognized people on that general "this person is in my section/ this person rode the shuttle with me/ this person knows my best friend's boyfriend's cousin" level, but none of them were the people with whom I choose to interact daily as friends or colleagues. I could sense people watching me, viewing me as an interloper in their protected little social world. While I clearly understood, even on entering the club, that I would never be a part of this group, I had absolutely...