Newburyport News | Lynne Hendricks
NEWBURYPORT — Steve Laffie has done a lot of living since he graduated from Newburyport High School in 1996. He's snowboarded and skied epic mountain peaks, joined a band and seized every moment afforded to him as a young man in his prime.
Having received a life-saving heart transplant at age 20, two years after graduation, Laffie knew all too well the value of those youthful years. And he never wasted one of them.
But now, having recently discovered the donor heart he received 15 years ago is failing, Laffie has been cast into his second battle for life. If Laffie is fortunate enough to be the recipient of a healthy heart from an organ donor, as he was in 1996, he plans to get married to his sweetheart and settle down.
But before that can happen, he'll have to journey back down a painful road that's become all too familiar to him and to the rest of his family.

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