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'She Was A Survivor:' Loved Ones Mourn Loss Of Wallington Woman, 32, Killed By Train 'She Was A Survivor:' Loved Ones Mourn Loss Of Wallington Woman, 32, Killed By Train
'She Was A Survivor:' Loved Ones Mourn Loss Of Wallington Woman, 32, Killed By Train Tara Yannette was a survivor. She was a two-time liver transplant recipient. She was nine months sober. The 32-year-old Wallington resident had a new boyfriend, Richard Black, and the two were in love. Courtesy of Richard Black But on Wednesday, July 3, Tara died by suicide, throwing herself in front of a train near the Plauderville Station in Garfield, behind her boyfriend's home, loved ones and NJ Transit officials tell Daily Voice. "She was a beautiful girl and for whatever reason, something snapped in her mind," said Tara's mother, Cheryl Fedor. "I wish she would have reached ou…

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Jersey Shore Nurse Battling For Her Life With Kidney Ailments Seeks Donor Match Jersey Shore Nurse Battling For Her Life With Kidney Ailments Seeks Donor Match
Jersey Shore Nurse Battling For Her Life With Kidney Ailments Seeks Donor Match A 26-year-old nurse and mother of two girls is battling for her life, her family in Ocean County says. Taylor Brazenor has been fighting Primary Hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) her entire life but has recently hit a wall, said her sister, Alison Way of Tuckerton. Brazenor, a nurse at AtlanticCare Regional Medical Center and a substitute nurse for Pinelands Regional School District in Ocean County, was placed on a kidney transplant list in November 2021.  She is still waiting for one. In the meantime, Brazenor's sister launched a GoFundMe page to help with medical expenses. Taylor is…

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Community Rallies For Teaneck Liver Transplant Patient Attacked In Hackensack Staples Community Rallies For Teaneck Liver Transplant Patient Attacked In Hackensack Staples
Community Rallies For Teaneck Liver Transplant Patient Attacked In Hackensack Staples The community is rallying for a liver transplant patient who was beaten in a Hackensack Staples store by another customer after asking her to wear her coronavirus face mask. More than $2,600 had been raised as of Sunday morning on a GoFundMe for Margot Kagan, of Teaneck. Kagan, 54, -- who had a liver transplant four months ago -- was at a copy machine at the Staples on Hackensack Avenue Wednesday when the attack happened. “The woman on one side of the plastic dividers had a mask, but here, below her mouth," Kagan told News12 from a hospital bed at HUMC.  "I said, ‘You should really p…

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by Cecilia Levine