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Patients in need of bone marrow donations rely on the commitment of potential donors. Keep an eye out for emails like this one that ask if you are still committed to donating if needed! All it takes is one click to help keep the registry updated and accurate.

For more information about committing to the bone marrow registry, visit https://www.cheekswab.org/join-the-registry/commitment/

Almost a year after Hayden walked up to the table on the Auburn campus, she got a phone call from a coordinator with Be the Match. Hayden, then 23, was a match for a baby girl with leukemia.

“I had been struggling for a while; I had changed my major,” Hayden said. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life and my career. I was feeling really down about everything. I was having trouble finding myself and feeling like I had a purpose. So, the more that I talked to this coordinator with Be the Match, I started feeling like what if this is my purpose?”

This wedding would have made you ugly cry. The bride is the flower girl's bone marrow donor. Dressed in her wedding gown, Hayden Hatfield knelt in front of a 3-year-old girl with dark hair and eyes and handed her a gift box wrapped in a pink ribbon.

"Several years ago a Montgomery County teenager needed a bone marrow transplant. But she was Asian American, and Asian Americans often struggle to find donors because they're underrepresented on the registry.

And then someone stepped up."

Maryland Woman Meets Bone Marrow Donor Who Saved Her Life Three years ago, Carly Nguyen didn't know if she would find a bone marrow match as she struggled with leukemia. Asian Americans are underrepresented in the donor registry. On Friday, she met the donor, Gerard Bao, who saved her life. News4's Aimee Cho shows the emotional moment Nguyen got to thank h...