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Heart Transplant Recipient Meets Donor's Family
Brut America
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3/25/2025
By total chance, a heart transplant recipient met his donor's family at a baseball game. Watch their emotional encounter. ️
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00:00
It was really just like hugging my brother again.
00:04
It was just the feeling of like closing my eyes and realizing, you know, this is my brother's heart.
00:10
And, you know, it was like hugging him again.
00:13
It was truly, truly amazing.
00:31
I wrote back and in that letter I put,
00:35
John, you now have a heart of pure gold.
00:38
I said, I've enclosed some pictures of my brother because I want you to put a face to your new heart
00:43
because I wanted him to know how handsome my brother was.
00:46
And how, you know, I just told him how awesome he was.
00:49
I told him about my brother, told him about us as a family.
01:01
My sister-in-law made me shirts for the game on Sunday.
01:04
And she put a picture on the front of the shirt.
01:08
I hear in the background, are you Donovan's family?
01:12
And I just thought it was somebody he went to school with or somebody that he worked with,
01:16
somebody I knew and they wanted to express their condolences, you know.
01:19
And next thing you know, you hear, my husband has his heart, we have his heart.
01:27
And we were like, no freaking way.
01:30
So it was just instant tears and instant, just like the biggest hug I think I've ever given somebody in my life.
01:37
I closed my eyes and if you look in the video, he kind of puts his hand over, you know, all of our heads,
01:43
over our ears so we could try to listen as best we could.
01:47
And it's just incredible, it's amazing.
01:50
And, you know, to know that we finally, you know, by chance, found, you know, the man that has his heart,
01:59
it's just, you know, unbelievable, unbelievable.
02:03
So, I mean, it's really just like having a newfound family because they're so willing to keep in contact,
02:10
which is amazing because that's exactly what we wanted.
02:14
My brother is a hero and so are all the organ donors because he was so giving and so loving
02:21
and he's still giving even in death.
02:24
Yes, you know, we lost our brother, but he got a second chance at life.
02:29
Organ donation is such an important, important thing for not only the recipient family,
02:38
but also the donor family because, I mean, the video really just says it all.
02:43
So, I think that's the coolest thing about this is really showing my brother lives on in somebody else
02:51
and how awesome organ donation really truly is.
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