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NCB Foundation grants a wish to Lee-Jae Gordon

Eighteen-year-old Lee-Jae Gordon is a budding neurosurgeon with a creative, entrepreneurial spirit. She is the second of three siblings in a household with a special-education teacher for a mother, and a father who works in insurance. Currently in...

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