The little girl's condition had worsened recently. She needed a bone marrow transplant to survive. But unlike me, she wasn't so lucky. None of her close relatives were a match, and the hospital didn't have any compatible bone marrow for her.

Her parents even considered having another child to save her.

It wasn't until she was moved to the ICU that I realized how close death was to us.

News of her death spread like wildfire among ...