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'Second chance': Rod Carew saved by heart from NFL player who died at 29 - chairman - 04-15-2017
(CNN)Rod Carew likely doesn't remember the first time he interacted with Konrad Reuland.
It was the late 1990s and Reuland was a sixth-grader in Southern California.
Reuland told his mother one day, 'Mom, I met Rod Carew today!" the Orange County Register reported.
Almost 20 years later, they are forever together. Reuland was an organ donor; after he died in December, his heart and a kidney went to Carew, who desperately needed a heart.
On Friday, the American Heart Association revealed the story of how the families of the baseball legend and the young NFL player who passed away after a brain aneurysm learned of unusual circumstances surrounding the gift to Carew.
[url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/health/rod-carew-heart-transplant-nfl-player-trnd/]READ MORE
Re: 'Second chance': Rod Carew saved by heart from NFL player who died at 29 - chairman - 04-17-2017
Heartwarming story