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Deborah Gregory loses her last battle

Deborah Gregory, the Dominican girl who won the hearts of Dominicans who donated more than one million pesos so she could be operated and have a chance at surviving leukemia, died yesterday two months and 13 days after receiving a bone transplant at the intensive care unit of Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. She would be 19 years old on 27 February. She died from liver and pneumonia complications.