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| Subject: Congratz: Stranger who said 'I do' to stem cell donation honoured at wedding Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:03 pm | |
| Few knew the stolid, bearded wedding guest. Yet everyone knew of his gift.
As newly married Michael Faust and Jackie Antico strode off an old loading deck at the Jones Bay Wharf at Pyrmont late on Thursday, family members gathered around the just vacated four-poster chuppah, the canopy under which a couple stand during a Jewish wedding ceremony.
The father of the groom, Warren Faust, strode across to the bearded guest, specially placed in the front row. With two hands, he grabbed the man by the arm and held his gaze. Then he kissed Texan Michael Striegold, 38, on the cheek – the wedding guest who gave his son a second chance at life.
Ten years earlier, young tennis player Michael Faust, then 23, was told in Sydney he had leukaemia with little chance of a cure. None of his grief-stricken eastern suburbs family was a matching stem cell donor. In this situation, a patient with his Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, one of the most aggressive forms of the disease, needed a lottery-like win to survive.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/stranger-who-said-i-do-to-stem-cell-donation-honoured-at-wedding-20140426-zqymv.html#ixzz302YowC3E |
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