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2,600 show up at bone marrow drive for girl
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Hundreds of people line up in the Farmingville Fire Department parking lot Sunday for tests to see if they are a bone marrow match with Julianna Buttner, 6. (Nov. 29, 2009)
Bone marrow donor drive in Farmingville
Six-year-old Julianna Buttner needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant
Girl with leukemia returns home from hospital
As the line of people snaked around the Farmingville Fire Department yesterday afternoon, Michael Buttner said he was stunned as he looked up from videotaping the scene.
Friends, family and complete strangers were there to see if they could donate bone marrow to Buttner's 6-year-old daughter Julianna, who has an aggressive form of acute lymphocytic leukemia.
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