portrait will be part of the Donate Life Rose Parade float: "Light Up the World." The Rose Parade is New Year's Day in Pasadena, Calif.

"Organ donation is an important thing for everybody," Ofelia Dominguez said. "Nobody wants to be making those decisions at that last minute. Luckily, Andrea made it a little easier for us. When you think about all the people that she saved, it's amazing. It's a good feeling to know."

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Andrea was a passenger in the back seat of a Toyota Corolla in 2005 when it struck another vehicle. She was thrown from the car and taken to what was then Thomason Hospital (now University Medical Center). She died eight days later. She was 22 years old.

Andrea signed up to be an organ donor whenshe was 16 years old.

"When she went to get her driver's license, they asked her if she wanted to be an organ donor," Ofelia Dominguez said. "She asked me what I thought and I told her it was up to her. She was already a blood donor, so it was easier for her to say, 'Yes, of course.' If she could do something to help others, why not?"

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The 2014 Donate Life Rose Parade Float entry features a festival of lanterns illuminating 30 riders -- all organ and tissue transplant recipients -- and 12 living organ donors walking alongside to demonstrate their ongoing vitality.

The float also will include five enormous lanterns, which will be adorned with 72 memorial floragraph portraits of deceased donors whose legacies of life live on.

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