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It’s Poetry Month and Organ Donation Month

It’s Poetry Month and Organ Donation Month

Written by on April 12, 2012 in Organ Donation with 2 Comments

  It’s Poetry Month and Organ Donation Month, all at once!  Be a donor!  Be a writer!  Be a reader! Here is “Have A Heart,” originally written for a young man who underwent his second heart transplant at age 20 (the first was as an infant), and a kidney transplant, also at age 20.  And […]

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Have A Heart

Have A Heart

Written by on October 7, 2010 in Health with 2 Comments

  Have A Heart.  October 7, 2010:  About one year ago, a young man–a college student–was dying.  His heart was failing.  His kidney was failing.  And this was through no fault of his own.  You see, the heart that was failing was not his own.  It was, if you will, his step-heart.  This heart was donated […]

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