Nov 26, 2009 7:08 am US/Eastern
Family Gives Back To N.J. Ronald McDonald House
CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS 3) ―
Every Thanksgiving, the Nassar family of Connecticut gives back and spreads some extra holiday cheer at the Ronald McDonald House in Camden.
For the last seven years, the Nassars have left their home in Connecticut to be house managers at the New Jersey facility.
The building was like a home away from home for them when their seven and three-year-old daughters were being treated for eye cancer.
"When things got better, they decided to give back. So Thanksgiving is a holiday that we always don't have somebody to cover, so they come from Connecticut and I can go away," Judi Godor of the House said.
The Nassars say it is their turn to comfort the 10 families gathered at the house who were all brought there by different circumstances, but who are bounded by a common link.
"What this place has done for our family, we couldn't afford to come down with all of our family every time. And we couldn't even imagine not going to a hotel and not having the warmth and the companionship of the people who are here going through the same things we were," Laura Nassar said.
The Nassars will spend the next few days at the home having Thanksgiving dinner with the families.
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