The other day, I had a meeting with a very nice lady named Kyleen Kelly. She is an expert on organ donation because she volunteers at A Second Chance at Life, a branch of Donate Life Kentucky. She told my mom and me her amazing story about her son, Mark Kelly.
Mark was diagnosed with liver disease at the age of 5. At age 48, he is still alive thanks to an organ donation.
Mark is not Kyleen’s biological son. His real mom died of leukemia when Mark was 10 years old. When Mark was 13, Kyleen married Mark’s dad, Baxter Kelly. Ever since then, Kyleen and Mark only refer to each other as mom and son because, ”If you love someone, you love them, and you don’t have to give birth to someone to claim them as your child,” Kyleen said.

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