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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Girl's final gift honored

The Boston Globe | Kathy Burge

In the hours after Katie Enos was hit by a car, after she was airlifted to Children’s Hospital Boston, after tests showed no signs of life in her brain, her parents were asked a heart-rending question: Did they want to give her heart and other organs to people who needed them?

“When we looked at each other across her bed, we both said yes,’’ remembered Marian Enos, Katie’s mother, at home in Westford recently with her husband, Ed, who works for a Bedford company. “Because he knew that’s something Katie would have done. I knew because she told me.’’

So on a late June day in 2010, people who had long been on waiting lists for organ transplants raced to hospitals to prepare for surgery.

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