DSC is launching Humans of DSC, a celebration of people who have touched our lives and our work.
Valentine’s Day Edition: Bringing Hearts Together
“I love our story!” Christina smiled over at her husband seated next to her. “We actually ran into Yorgi awhile back,” Ralph recalled, “I told him, ‘I have to thank you. It’s because of DSC that I met my wife.’” Ralph and Christina had been at the edges of each other’s worlds for years without knowing it. They had once attended the same four-day event—stayed in the same hotel, sat at a communal dinner table—and never crossed paths. “Imagine,” Ralph said, “she was in the pictures I had taken and put on Facebook. But I never saw her there. Not once.” And then they met at the celebration of DSC’s 500th blood drive.
Ralph was attending as the representative for the Indevco Group, a donor to the DSC cause. Christina, always a regular blood donor, had been invited by a friend. That friend, it turned out, was also Ralph’s friend, and had asked him to save a seat for Christina.
They talked for hours, through the whole event. “We completely neglected our friends, and when they were calling donors up to the stage to accept the cedar trees, I was so busy talking to her, that I didn’t hear it and didn’t go up. I only got the tree afterward.” They still have it.
Christina searched through her phone for their photo from that night. In the photo, the two of them were smiling, heads together, while the DSC event went on around them. “After I left that night,” Christina said, “I thought, ‘Wow,’ and I just knew something about this was different, and I went with my heart.” A year later, they married. And they couldn’t be happier. #HumansOfDSC
