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Meeting Your Organ Donor’s Parents

A man who received a heart transplant talks about meeting the parents of the young man whose heart he now carries.

| February 27, 2018, 12:49 PM (Last Updated: February 27, 2018, 1:18 PM)

We meet Randy Creech, a Houston man who received a heart transplant 25 years ago. He tells the story of meeting the parents of the young man who gave him his heart.

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Meeting Your Organ Donor’s Parents

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