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Miller-Keystone Blood Center appreciates the opportunity to clarify a concern that has arisen from the April 6 article, ''Phone call brings instant family for Valley man.''

While stating that recently reunited brothers Marlin Bozes of Allentown and Albert Strawbridge of Pen Argyl often donate blood together, the author wrotes that ''a former employee of the Miller-Keystone Blood Center looked up both men's donation histories and found they'd both been there on the same day in 1998, each unaware of the other's identity.''

This statement is inaccurate. The employee who discovered a connection in 1998 was Marlin's wife, Deborah, who is still an employee of Miller-Keystone Blood Center. In her role as a scheduler, Deborah is required to not only schedule donors, but to greet individuals at our donor center, and to pre-screen them to ensure they are currently eligible to donate blood.

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