As she filled in her son’s eyebrows with brown sand today, Perez noticed a woman walk into the room at the NJ Sharing Network in New Providence. Perez recognized her immediately, though the two had never met.
"Finally," Perez said through tears, crossing to hug the woman.
"Thank you. Thank you," replied Alvah Beander, whose husband received a kidney and a pancreas from Perez’s son.
Beander traveled from her home in Alexandria, Va. to meet Perez today at the New Jersey chapter of the organ and tissue donation non-profit group.
The women were brought together by tragedy. Roberto died in 1997 at age 18, after suffering a brain aneurysm. Through the NJ Sharing Network, Maria and her husband Carlos donated Roberto’s organs, saving five lives, including then-48-year-old Marvin Beander.
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