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Phoenix girl needs donor match

KYRA Ramdin from Phoenix is 11 years old.

She loves her dog Zeus more than anything, as well as horse riding, ice skating and reading.

She also urgently needs to find a donor match for a blood cell stem transplant after being diagnosed with leukaemia, a blood cancer, in October.

Kyra’s mother Michelle said the journey leading up to the diagnosis and the last five months, in which Kyra has been undergoing chemotherapy, was difficult but the family was optimistic they

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