LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Of the nearly 90,000 fans in Memorial Stadium on Saturday, no two will be connected in quite the same way as Julia Morrison and Erica Brockberg.

“I cheer for Nebraska, but I have Michigan blood,” Morrison said.

Julia Morrison is a 10-year-old in Lincoln who loves things like dancing, painting and golfing. But four years ago most of her time was spent in the hospital after being diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare disease leaving her bone marrow unable to produce enough red-blood cells.

“We were doing blood transfusions, platelet transfusions just trying to keep her at a level where we were keeping her safe,” Julia’s father Tyler said. “All while we were looking through other courses of action for what we could do.”

After months of failed treatments, the Morris

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