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 an encounter he never knew would come true. On a sunny Saturday afternoon in August, the Brooklyn native and his family gathered at Pier 57 in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood to meet Nicholas Miranda Newberry, the man who donated bone marrow to save his life three years ago. […]