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Gainesville woman's rocking chair donation goes full circle

Mother of five happy to see treasured memorial to her two sons

Sylina Libasci relaxes in a rocking chair she donated to the Northeast Georgia Medical Center women’s center 20 years ago. Choices Pregnancy Center Director Ann Gainey discovered the chair in disrepair inside the hospital’s warehouse and had it restored.

0922chair1 — Sylina Libasci relaxes in a rocking chair she donated to the Northeast Georgia Medical Center women’s center 20 years ago. Choices Pregnancy Center Director Ann Gainey discovered the chair in disrepair inside the hospital’s warehouse and had it restored.

Sylina LiBasci remembers the night before the accident. It was 1997 and her two young sons had seen someone being put into the back of an ambulance earlier that day. The boys, 4-year-old Caleb and 2-year-old Benjamin LiBasci, had a lot of questions.