Abstract :
Little Maria, 7 years old, was dying. The doctors thought they might be able to save her with a bone marrow transplant, if a suitable donor could be found. Thus it was that her parents, Allison and John, were tested to ascertain whether or not they could donate their bone marrow to Maria. As it turned out, John was a better match than Allison, but both of them ended up in the donor data bank. Unfortunately for all, Maria died despite the bone marrow transplant, and it was a hard dying. After her death, her parents were so lost in their own grief that they were unable to comfort one another and eventually divorced.
