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After Gey take the cell of Henrietta, he gives the sample to Mary to grow it at lab. They do the research of cell for several years, and it not succeeds.  Gey and Margaret opened the lab when Gey was graduated from college. They starts do the research of growing cells and tries finding a way to let the cell alive. Like collect umbilical cord blood, cow fetuses and chicken blood and so on, but it all failed. They do the research of growing cells for many years. When she gets the cells of Henrietta, she just does it as usual. When Mary notices Henrietta’s cell keep growing, she tells to Gey. Gey defines that Henrietta’s cells are alive until several days past, and then he tells to his closest colleagues.

Henrietta does know anything about her cells growing at lab when she leaves the hospital. When Henrietta goes back home, her life run the usual. Take care of children, work at the tobacco fields, and dance after her children go to sleep. No one knows Henrietta is sick, until Henrietta talk to her cousins. Henrietta stays at her cousin’s home and waiting for Day to pick her home when she needs to start X-ray therapy every weekday for month. After two weeks when Henrietta finished treatments, she feels bad and burns inside.

When author is 27 years old, she calls to Roland Pattillo who was one of the students of Gey try to get tough with Henrietta’s family. She gives many reasons to persuade Pattillo to give the number to her. Finally, she gets a number of Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah. Deborah doesn’t want to talk about it and she gives her brother and father number. They don’t want talk about Henrietta either.

Gey starts to introduce his work and sending Henrietta’s cells to scientist who might need it for cancer research.

At that time, there is an important cell in cells culture called chicken heart cells by Carrel. But when he died, people do not pay any attention anymore.

Henrietta feels worse, when she goes to hospital every time. She talks to her doctor that she feels pain but they cannot help her. After she is 31 years old, she needs to stay in the hospital to take care of her healthy. Everyone think Gey and Henrietta never meet, except Laure Aurelian. He said Gey do talk to Henrietta that her cells will make her immortal, and then she feels better because her pain could help other people.

Henrietta is a kind woman, when she was sick and leaned on the bed in hostipal,Gey told her that her cells could help other people she was smiled.