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Life saved: Rita de Silva and her two-year-old son Kasun return to Sri Lanka this week after Kasun's surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children to fix holes in his heart and remove a cyst on his lung
Life saved: Rita de Silva and her two-year-old son Kasun return to Sri Lanka this week after Kasun's surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children to fix holes in his heart and remove a cyst on his lung

Life saved: Rita de Silva and her two-year-old son Kasun return to Sri Lanka this week after Kasun's surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children to fix holes in his heart and remove a cyst on his lung

Date5/28/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Life saved: Rita de Silva and her two-year-old son Kasun return to Sri Lanka this week after Kasun's surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children to fix holes in his heart and remove a cyst on his lung.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0025966F
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