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November 8 - 14, 20<strong>17</strong> www.TheTownCommon.com Page 3<br />
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match.<br />
A match came from an<br />
unexpected source. The Mulkerns’<br />
daughter, Amanda, a Triton High<br />
School graduate, had fallen in<br />
love and was planning to marry<br />
Nick Johnas.<br />
Without hesitation, the<br />
bridegroom-to-be offered to see<br />
if he was a match for his future<br />
father-in-law.<br />
“I just couldn’t live the rest of<br />
my life knowing that I could’ve<br />
done something,” Johnas said.<br />
Testing showed he was a match,<br />
and the Mass General Hospital<br />
determined that he was not crazy.<br />
So in February, Mass General<br />
surgeon Dr. Parsia Vagefi took<br />
60 percent of Johnas’ liver and<br />
transplanted it into Mulkern.<br />
Both sides of the liver are now<br />
growing to be the right size for<br />
each man. Amanda Mulkern had<br />
matching sweatshirts made for<br />
her father and husband that says,<br />
“He’s my better half.” And “He’s<br />
my other half.”<br />
Mulkern last week was back<br />
working a job in Gloucester and<br />
“feeling great,” except for the endof-the-day<br />
swelling in his feet and<br />
legs, he said.<br />
Last summer, less than three<br />
months after the surgery, both<br />
men were strong enough to hit the<br />
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year, instead of switching between<br />
Eastern Standard Time, would<br />
work only if statewide standards<br />
are established for delaying<br />
school starts and if a majority of<br />
Northeastern states, including<br />
New York, agree to align their<br />
clocks with Massachusetts.<br />
Seventeen states are in the<br />
Eastern Time Zone.<br />
“(To have the state unilaterally<br />
change time zones) would be<br />
foolish, and some would say<br />
insane,” said State Rep. Daniel<br />
Cahill, D-Lynn, a commission<br />
member.<br />
State representative Paul<br />
Frost, R-Auburn, another<br />
commission member, argued<br />
that Massachusetts should be<br />
on the same time zone as New<br />
York to avoid disrupting travelers<br />
and create issues for television<br />
dance floor at Nick and Amanda’s<br />
wedding.<br />
“The father-daughter dance and<br />
the walk down the aisle were my<br />
motivation,” Johnas was quoted<br />
in an article in the Mass General<br />
newsletter. “It was just so perfect<br />
to see my beautiful wife coming<br />
down the aisle with her father,<br />
knowing that he is healthy and<br />
has a new chance at life.”<br />
Amanda called her wedding<br />
“a fairy tale of pure bliss and<br />
happiness. Here are two men I<br />
love more than anything – one<br />
who I’ve spent all of my life with<br />
and the other who I will spend<br />
the rest of my life with.”<br />
The couple moved into a home<br />
in Sandwich last weekend with<br />
Bob and Sandy and the Johnas<br />
family helping.<br />
“You can’t do this on your own,”<br />
Mulkern said of his recovery. “It<br />
takes family and friends and the<br />
generosity of people like Mo and<br />
Solace.”<br />
The fate of most of the cancer<br />
victims Solace helps is not so<br />
positive.<br />
Several years ago, Tracy<br />
Tinkham sent the organization a<br />
thank you note for its support of<br />
his wife, Emily, who contracted<br />
endometrial cancer.<br />
“I believe there comes a time at<br />
least once in our lives that we are<br />
broadcasting companies.<br />
“If you do not have New York,<br />
this is a no-go,” said Frost, who<br />
voted against the report.<br />
The idea of changing time<br />
zones is under consideration in<br />
other Eastern states. Maine voted<br />
earlier this year to adopt Atlantic<br />
time if Massachusetts and New<br />
Hampshire did so.<br />
“Any move to year-round<br />
(daylight savings time) should<br />
be regional, because acting alone<br />
would make Massachusetts a<br />
significant outlier, and could<br />
disrupt commerce, trade,<br />
interstate transportation, and<br />
broadcasting,” the report states.<br />
The change in time zones<br />
would need the approval of the<br />
full legislature and the U.S.<br />
Department of Transportation.<br />
Donoghue, the Lowell<br />
legislator, said she has not heard<br />
called upon to reach out and help<br />
someone who may be struggling<br />
with a sickness or death of a close<br />
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“This is the beginning of<br />
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