Before My 19-Year-Old Son Died, He Donated His Heart to an 18-Year-Old Girl—Then Her Mother Handed Me a Letter: “Mom, There’s Something You Need to Know About Her”
Rejection monitoring.
Survivor guilt.
Donor-family grief.
Recipient-family gratitude that can become so heavy it feels like debt.
Nothing about it is simple.
Caleb understood some of that before I did.
His letter did not say:
Mom, I’m still alive inside her.
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