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Michael Richard of Orlando hugs 18-year-old Kate Blubaugh of Shingle Springs, Calif., the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="HHA00006669" title="Bone Marrow" href="/topic/health/human-body/bone-marrow-HHA00006669.topic">bone marrow</a> donor that saved his life, as he meets her for the first time during an emotional gathering at the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLCUL000151" title="Florida Hospital" href="/topic/health/hospitals-clinics/florida-hospital-PLCUL000151.topic">Florida Hospital</a> Cancer Institute's Inaugural Bone Marrow Transplant <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100411070000" title="Reunion" href="/topic/us/florida/osceola-county/reunion-PLGEO100100411070000.topic">Reunion</a>, in downtown Orlando. Richard is the first in central Florida to receive a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, which he got from Blubaugh in the summer of 2008.

( JOE BURBANK, ORLANDO SENTINEL / August 30, 2009 )

Michael Richard of Orlando hugs 18-year-old Kate Blubaugh of Shingle Springs, Calif., the bone marrow donor that saved his life, as he meets her for the first time during an emotional gathering at the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute's Inaugural Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion, in downtown Orlando. Richard is the first in central Florida to receive a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, which he got from Blubaugh in the summer of 2008.

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