This was a story from Gift of Life I think.
The boy who received my son's heart died Tuesday, although he wasn't really a boy any longer. He was 37 years old. But when my 7-year-old son, Nicholas, was shot in an attempted carjacking on a family vacation in Italy, Andrea Mongiardo was just 15. When the Italian media first asked (my wife) Maggie how she felt about our son's heart being transplanted into another boy's chest, she said, "I always hoped Nicholas would have a long life. Now I hope his heart has a long life." Sadly, Nicholas' heart didn't reach old age. It did, however, perform nobly for decades. I'm not surprised. I always knew it was pure gold.
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