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Posted: 10:18 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, 2013
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By NEWS9
COLUMBIANA COUNTY, Ohio
Chelsea Lingenfelter, 21, of Wellsville died Monday at the Cleveland Clinic. She was in the middle of surgery to receive a liver.
At age 4, Lingenfelter was diagnosed with adult liver cancer, and by age 7, her mother had given her a piece of her liver.
It was only expected to last Lingenfelter seven years but it lasted 14.
Lingenfelter had been in need of a liver for a year.
From support on Facebook to the website aliverforchelsea.weebly.com, perfect strangers have shown their support.
Family friend Lorie Baumgarner even started up "Team Chelsea."
"It's been a year, we've sold shirts, bracelets. We had a spaghetti dinner, we do raffles often," said Baumgarner.
The money raised went toward helping Chelsea's mom to be able to stay in Cleveland with her daughter throughout the week.
"Maybe you can't give blood, you can't give an organ. Maybe some people don't have the money to give, but the one thing everyone can give is love," said Baumgarner.
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