Gavin Ryne Winslow was born on February 23, 2006 with end-stage renal failure, or congenital kidney failure. Gavyn was born with only 10-15% function in one of his kidneys, and 0% function in the other. Without a kidney transplant, Gavin will not survive.
You can help Baby Gavin by donating at the following link.
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Yet another book finished. Won’t say too much about this one other than it was really good. It’s about the authors travel on foot through Afghanistan just after the fall of the Taliban.
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The Day of the Jackal follows an assassin as he tries to kill the president of France, Charles De Gaulle, in 1963. The mysterious Jackal is the world’s top assassin, who is hired by a French revolutionary group. The book goes into great detail following the Jackal through his preparations for the assassination [...]
What a great book! I knew this was supposed to be a good book, but never got around to reading it because I figured I wouldn’t really learn anything new, and that it would cover the same material as another book I just finished. I was wrong. Fast Food Nation covers quite [...]