Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Heart Transplant

Here is the This American Life story I heard a while back of the little girl who receives a heart transplant and ends up meeting the mother of the little boy whose heart she receives. Here's the official blurb and the link to the story. You have to skip ahead to about 20 minutes in.

Act Two. Lucas and Sarah.

When Sarah was 10 years old, she got a heart transplant. Soon after, her mother decided to find out more about the person who saved her daughter’s life. She discovers the donor was a little boy her daughter’s age, and that he’d been murdered by gang members who mistook him for his older brother. The two families begin to connect—everyone but Sarah, who’s not at all sure she wants to know anything at all about the boy or the family that lost him. Reporter Jill Wolfson tells the story. (21 minutes)

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