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We are bringing back a story we first put out five years ago.

We called it Christmas in July because it's a story about giving.

Some things have changed since 2019.

Hi, we've had a couple big presidential elections, a pandemic.

It's been a little news on our beat recently.

We'll have some updates and some context to add at the end.

For now, here's the story.

In 1980, Denny Bueller was a 24-year-old guy with three kids and leukemia. He needed a bone marrow

transplant, and in those days, that was not available in Cincinnati where he lived. He had to go to

Seattle with his sister, who was the donor, and his wife. Well, I remember my dad, and I'm the only

one of my siblings who does.

This is Denny's oldest daughter, Jenny Spring. She was four when he went to Seattle.

I do remember knowing he was sick. I remember, you know, we lived with his parents, our grandparents,

while he and my mom and Aunt Cynthia were in Seattle. It was a long-distance relationship,

letters, sending tapes back and forth. In It was a long-distance relationship, letters, sending tapes back and forth.

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