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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Lifegiving Stories - Organ donors provide future for many

My Central Jersey | Sergio Bichao

They lived life, loved by family and friends. But just like that, they were gone.

Joe D’Addio of Watchung was enjoying dinner with his wife on April 13, 2009, when he suffered a brain hemorrhage.

The attack left him unresponsive in a hospital, his family waiting by his side.

Sean Clegg, 14, of Tabernacle was riding his bicycle in 2007 when he was struck by a car and killed.

Roberto Perez of North Bergen was 18 when he died from a brain aneurysm in 1997.

But Addio, Clegg and Perez still live on.

Like thousands of others, they were all organ donors.  Even in death, they saved the lives of many people.

In life, D’Addio was his family’s “Superman.” He proved to be a superman in death, too. 

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