Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts is a "walking miracle." When doctors told her she had only two years to live after being diagnosed in 2013 with a severe blood and bone marrow disease, it was Amber Laign's love that truly saved her.

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"I feel like I am a walking miracle," the breast cancer survivor told People Magazine on Wednesday.

Roberts, 53, who triumphantly returned to air last year, was candid about the challenges she faced after being diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome. Without a transplant, she was looking at only two years left. But love pulled her through - the love of her caregiver and girlfriend of nine years, Amber Laign, 39. Roberts acknowledges her in her upcoming memoir Everybody's Got Something.

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"How could I not?" says Roberts, "Even though Amber is someone who shies away from the spotlight, it was important for me to let people know I have this person in my life."

Laign is a licensed massage therapist from San Francisco and has a private practice specializing in patient recovery from injuries. Last December, in a Facebook post, Roberts wrote, "I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and her friends as we prepare to celebrate a glorious new year together."

Roberts still receives low-intensity chemotherapy shots every six to eight weeks and will continue the treatment until the second anniversary of her bone marrow transplant later this year. There is risk, but Roberts keeps a positive perspective, "I look at what I did as a cure, not just as a stopgap measure. I have to hold onto that. Otherwise it would rob me of who I am."

The treatments have definitely improved Roberts health.

"I can go to the doctor now and not have to hold my breath as much when they're drawing blood and I'm waiting for the results to come back," she says. "I can be sick now like everybody else and it doesn't mean I'm going to land back in the hospital."

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