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A group of parents met their child for the first time over the weekend. Like any adoption, both sides were nervous.
"I expected all their teeth to be knocked out," the little girl said.
This was not a typical adoption. The parents were the Yale women's hockey team, and their new baby is 9 years old and already has a loving mother and father.
Giana Cardonita also had a brain tumor. It left her blind in one eye and with long list of health implications. That made her a natural candidate to be adopted by a bunch of 18- to 22-year-old college girls.
You may have heard of Mandi Schwartz, the Yale hockey player with leukemia. Her battle has become a crusade in her native Canada and the Ivy League campus where her jersey hangs in a locker waiting for her return.
Mandi has been in Seattle for months after undergoing a stem-cell transplant. Over the past year, Yale and the hockey community have had a slew of fundraisers and donor-registration drives. The biggest yet will be Friday.
It's a "White Out for Mandi." Yale plays Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and will try to set an attendance record at Ingalls Rink. The place seats 3,500, and players have lined up pledges based on how many people show.
Emmanuelle Chriqui Emmanuelle Vaugier Emmy Rossum Erica Leerhsen Erika Christensen
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