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Jul 30, 2013 · Sara Kushnick was 3 years old when her twin brother, Samuel, went to the hospital with respiratory troubles. He had always been the sickly one of the pair, subject to inexplicable earaches,...
“Nobody wanted their kids to play with me,” recalled Sara Rose Kushnick, who now goes by her married name, Gorfinkel. Sara and Sam had been born prematurely at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
May 3, 1988 · Sara’s twin contracted AIDS from one of 20 blood transfusions he received from 13 different donors as a premature baby at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Aug 29, 1996 · Kushnick is survived by her daughter Sara Rose, 16, of Manhattan and her brother, Joseph Gorman of Manhattan.
Aug 16, 2013 · When Sara was eight years old, her father, Jerrold Kushnick, died at 57, less than two years after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Then, days after Sara turned 16, her mother, Helen Kushnick, succumbed at age 51 to the breast cancer that had stalked her for almost a decade.
Aug 30, 1996 · Kushnick became a campaigner in the fight against the disease. Ms. Kushnick is survived by a daughter, Sara Rose (the other twin), and a brother, Joseph Gorman, of New York City.
Jul 30, 2013 · Sara Kushnick lost her brother to AIDS when she was 3. She lost her father to cancer when she was 8. She lost her mother to cancer when she was 16. Emily Yoffe reports the amazing tale of how Sara persevered: http://slate.me/17QJ3e5. slate.me.
