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Area Woman Hopes To Find A Living Liver Donor Area Woman Hopes To Find A Living Liver Donor
Area Woman Hopes To Find A Living Liver Donor A 51-year-old  Connecticut woman suffering from end-stage liver disease is in desperate need of a living liver donor. Litchfield County resident Cynthia Define, a 51-year-old New Milford single mother of three, said time is running out and hopes a new call for a donor will save her life. Define was diagnosed at age 13 with primary biliary cirrhosis, a chronic disease in which the bile ducts in the liver are slowly destroyed.  Because she was adopted months after birth there is no health history to try to understand why she has this disease.  At age 42, doctors told Define …

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by Kathy Reakes