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“We put him on speakerphone and got in the car and got there. My son got on an airplane and got there right before I went into surgery, she said.

The surgery at Ronald Reagan UCLA https://www.gooseyou.com Medical Center was a success, the lungs a match, her body not rejecting them but she knows now the emotional toll not just of illness, but depending on others for survival of being on a transplant list.

“I’m a walking miracle buy canada goose jacket because people decided their child, their daughter, or she decided that she was going to help other people live,” she said.

And the Senator is not going to waste that gift.

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