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New York print shop operator began donating blood 58 years ago
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WOODBURY, New York - A New York man is donating his 320th pint (half-a-liter) of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons.
Seventy-five-year-old Al Fischer of Massapequa plans to reach the milestone Tuesday, 58 years after he started giving blood.
According to a New York Blood Center official, only 83-year-old Maurice Wood has donated more blood than Fischer. Wood is a retired railroad inspector from St. Louis.
Fischer, a print shop operator, donates blood about six times a year. He says he and Wood are engaged in a friendly rivalry and last spoke to each other a few months ago.
Long Island Blood Services executive director Harvey Schaffler says Fischer has helped almost 1,000 people.
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