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Anonymous donor gave Vanessa a new lease on life

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When Strathalbyn resident Vanessa Gale was born, her heart wasn’t working properly.

Doctors told her parents to prepare for a short life, diagnosing her with a condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

She went under the knife as a baby and again when she was just seven, increasing her life expectancy.

“That operation got me through primary and high school and then university,” sh...


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