The Bone Marrow Drive on Maple Street

In 2019, a seven-year-old girl named Lily Chen was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Rochester, Minnesota. Her family had moved from Taiwan only two years earlier. They barely knew their neighbors. But when Lily's doctor said she needed a bone marrow transplant, something remarkable happened on Maple Street. A retired postal worker named Gerald organized a donor registration drive at the community center.…