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Livie Smart was diagnosed with leukemia at 14 and received a lifesaving bone marrow transplant.

Livie serves as patient champion at the Festival of Trees, encouraging people to become bone marrow donors.

Festivalgoers will see dazzling trees and intricately designed gingerbread houses at Mountain American Expo Center.

When Livie Smart was 14 years old, she was diagnosed with leukemia. She was put on a treatment of chemo pills, but after about 10 months, her treatment failed. It was then that her doctors decided they should do a bone marrow transplant.

Around the same time that Livie was diagnosed, a college student on the other side of the country attended a football game and saw a booth where she could swab her saliva and register to be on the bone marrow donor list.

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