The RIP Thread...

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James Harrison, pictured donating blood in 2018
James Harrison, a prolific Australian blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than two million babies, has died at age 88.

Harrison, whose plasma contained a “rare and precious antibody” known as Anti-D, donated blood more than 1,100 times, according to Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, which confirmed his death in a statement published Saturday
 
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Kitty Dukakis:

“I hope readers won’t miss Katharine Seelye’s moving obituary for Kitty Dukakis, the former first lady of Massachusetts. Dukakis suffered for years from depression and substance abuse — and then dealt with her challenges with a degree of courage and openness that made her an inspiration. What I didn’t know was that she was also an extraordinary humanitarian. One paragraph from the obituary grabbed me by the throat:

She worked with the Lutheran Service Association to bring children out of refugee camps and into foster homes in the United States. At one point in the early 1980s, she went to a refugee camp on the Thailand-Cambodia border to search for a missing orphan whose sister lived near Boston. When a Thai colonel would not let her into the camp, she dropped to her knees and begged; he relented. She found the boy and reunited him with his sister; he later earned a full scholarship to Brandeis University.
Condolences to the Dukakis family. May her memory be for a blessing, too.”
 
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