things i learned, one of these crazy throwaway facts was the original american over was he human genome project and that was almost too close for comfort and i read a story of what they called modern eugenics the story of the nash family in colorado, the first family to create a donor sibling to help their daughter, molly, who at the time had a disease. she was supposed to die by age two, hanging on by a thread at age three, the designed a sibling for her who could provide a stem cell transplant and the went into repolice and all was great, and i knew that was whole different topic and i started to think a lot about that and i was thinking in particular, molly and her brother, when i met them, were five and eight, and they were little kids. but what would happen to a donor slick ling in the teenagers areas when that's all about who am i? am i here just because of my sister? do i have any worth of my own? i wanted to explore that and that kind of grew into the sister's keeper but at the same time i had been the parent of a child who had multiple surgeries mitchell middle son, jake, had something