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TITLE |
Gift
of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story, A |
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General
Diabetes Kidney transplant |
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A teenage
boy returns to his father and grandparents after |
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staying with
alcoholic mother. Dad is about to get re-married. |
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All Daniel
cares about is getting on the school football team |
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But soon
he's fed up with living with dad, his new wife and her |
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Granma
(Reynolds) collapses with a mild stroke caused by |
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diabetes.
She's told she has only 5% use of her kidneys left |
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But the
dialysis doesn't do the job and she needs a kidney |
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transplant.
Daniel who is very close to his gran wants to |
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donate one
of his kidneys though this means he'll never be |
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able to play
football again. When dad hears of this he wants |
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to donate a
kidney but the new wife is against this partly |
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because he
can't afford to take a month off work. Gran is also |
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against
Daniel's offer even after a match is confirmed |
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The
transplant goes ahead. Gran is O.K. and Daniel gets a |
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full
scholarship to Florida State University. |
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Not such a
bad film. It tackles the issues involved and it is a |
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Notes
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