Praxedes Garcia: Its not that I feel sorry for me. I feel sorry for my daughters
DOMENICO PUGLIESE FOR THE TIMES
Thursday July 16 2020, 12.01am, The Times
Praxedes Garcia suffers from a form of leukaemia so aggressive that her doctors have told her they have only until the end of the month to find a cure. To do so they need our help. I say I had better write this piece very quickly then.
Yes, otherwise you will feel so guilty. Oh my God! says Praxedes, who finds the humour in everything. But, she adds thoughtfully, I dont know whats the key to make people not only feel sorry for me but take some action.
Well maybe, I suggest, I should write: Praxedes needs your stem cells, which you can easily donate and which may well save her life. Perhaps that sentence should go right at the top because who reads my
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