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Vilma Wong, who had been working at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for more than 32 years, met Brandon Seminatore, 28, in August. Seminatore, a second-year pediatric resident completing a child neurology residency at Stanford University, had joined Wong’s team, according to the statement from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. “I asked who he was and his name, and last name sounded very familiar,” Wong said in the statement. “I kept asking where he was from, and he told me that he was from San Jose, California, and that, as a matter of fact, he was a premature baby born at...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. — A mother in South Carolina received a special Mother's Day gift Sunday after the staff at a Ruby Tuesday's noticed she was eating lunch by herself. According to WMBF, Barbara Foy went to get lunch by herself at the Ruby Tuesday near Surfside Beach after she didn't receive a call from her son on Mother's Day. She said he hasn't called her for some time. When the staff realized Foy was eating alone, they pitched in to make her a Mother's Day gift basket filled with goodies. Foy's lunch was also paid for, and a customer...

Girl Transformed by Facial Surgery Benefactor helps family get help for their 11-year-old daughter. By LINDA TRIMBLE The Daytona Beach News-Journal DELTONA -- Susan and John Macklefresh are still adjusting to their daughter's new world, where 11-year-old Joanna can play outside, go to school, visit a friend or stay overnight at grandma's without her parents or a nurse tagging along. "We're not checking on her every 15 minutes to make sure everything is all right," said John Macklefresh. "Maybe every 16," his wife said with a laugh. It's a habit born of years of medical crises that began when Joanna...

Old he was. How old, I’ve no idea, but his hair – what there was of it – was all gray, as was his wispy, long beard and moustache. Sometimes, in Viet Nam, it was hard to tell exactly what ethnicity a person was, and he could have been any one of the 15 different ethnicities of Vietnamese peoples, or even Chinese or Cambodian… But he was old. And he was friendly. At least to the three of us. Sort of. Jubal, Dick and I passed him every time we drove from Davis Station out to our work-place. And it...