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Girl born 4 months early now thriving 1st-grader
Quick ReadGina DeMasi was born premature in 2003 and weighed 1 lb. 2 oz. and measured 11 inches.
Photo credit: Newsday/Ken Sawchuk | Gina Marie DeMasi, 6, with her parents Richard and Lisa DeMasi in the family's West Islip home. Gina was to be born on Thanksgiving Day in 2003 but instead arrived four months premature. Because of her size at the time doctors gave her a 30 percent chance of surviving but is now pretty much a healthy six-year-old. (November 25, 2009)
DeMasi famiy celebrates their "Thanksgiving miracle" daughter Gina.
Richard DeMasi plucked his wedding band off and showed it to his giggling, squirming daughter, Gina, as she stood next to him.
The ring, he told Gina softly, slipped easily over her thin arms and legs after her premature birth, when she weighed 1 lb. 2 oz. and measured 11 inches.
"Not anymore," he said Wednesday.
Gina is now a big girl - 6 years old - attending first grade at Captree...
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