The most powerful stories are the personal ones. Thank you to Armando Garcia and ABCNews for sharing Armando’s personal experience as a bone marrow donor.

This story has a dramatic payoff at the end, when we see our own Alfredo meeting Armando, always smiling and hoping to find his own matching donor.

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Alfredo Diaz is suffering from an extremely rare disease. A blood stem cell transplant, from a genetically matched donor is his only hope for a cure.

His mom, Natalia Torres, is confident that a matching donor will be found. “There’s one out there, we just have to find him or her.”

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CHICAGO (WLS) — Alfredo Diaz, a 6-year-old boy from Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, needs a blood stem cell donor to help cure him from a life-threatening blood disorder.

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