My 8-year-old son desperately needed a heart transplant, and we were told a young girl who had recently died was a match. The surgery was successful, but two weeks later, the girl\u2019s mother found us and handed me a small music box. She told me her daughter used to play it every night and once said her heart was \u201ctoo big for her body\u201d because it was always racing. Then she gave the music box to my son, saying, \u201cI need him to have this, so when he can\u2019t sleep, he\u2019ll hear what her heart sounded like before it was his.\u201d I was overwhelmed by the compassion of a mother who had just lost her child yet still wanted to give my son a piece of her daughter\u2019s life. Now he plays the music box every night and says, \u201cMom, when the music plays, my chest feels warm.\u201d He doesn\u2019t yet understand where his new heart came from, but one day I\u2019ll tell him about the little girl who gave him everything she had\u2014and the mother who made sure that incredible gift came with a song. READ MORE BELOW <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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