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“Louise had beautiful, big brown eyes,” says her sister Juliette Cosgrove.

Having worked in intensive care, Juliette is no stranger to the difficult discussions around organ donation. But she always knew her sister wanted to be a donor.

So when Louise was killed in a car accident near Huddersfield, aged 27, her family knew what to do.

“It was the thing that everyone always commented on about her, so something happening to her eyes was a difficult discussion for our family to have,” she says.

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“I knew how strongly Louise felt about organ donation and in this moment, it wasn’t about us, it was about her.”

The family agreed that night that Louise’s corneas could

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