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    The Importance of Blood Donation*

    This is a collaboration piece. June 14th is World Blood Donor day, it’s an important day in the calendar as far as awareness days go because blood donation does save lives, and it’s a simple thing a lot of people are able to do. It’s not like being asked to give up a vital organ, when you donate blood, you only give what you can spare. A couple of years ago I learned just how important blood donations are when someone close to me unexpectedly needed a transfusion, it wasn’t something we expected to hear as she was going in for something as routine as having her second child. Blood…