Teen leukemia survivor meets life-saving donor for first time at tearful NYC encounter: ‘He’s a godsend’
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Teen leukemia survivor meets life-saving donor for first time at tearful NYC encounter: ‘He’s a godsend’

For 18-year-old leukemia survivor Elijah John, it was a meeting he wasn’t sure would ever happen. The Brooklyn native and his family gathered at Manhattan’s Pier 57 in Chelsea on a sunny August afternoon Saturday to meet Nicholas Miranda-Newberry – the man who donated his bone marrow to save the…