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Friday, December 16, 2011

Ten years later, a young girl's legacy still inspires others to give the gift of life

The Living Legacy Foundation | Lauren

Heather Ann Ricci was only ten years old in August 2001 when the car she was riding in was struck by a tractor trailer in Harford County, Md. When they learned the head injury Heather had sustained from the accident had been fatal, Heather’s parents selflessly thought of others during one of the darkest moments of their lives and said yes to organ donation.

Heather was able to save five people’s lives through organ donation, and her legacy did not end there. Her story has touched the lives and hearts of many over the last ten years, including her childhood friend, Megan Kurtzman.

This year, Megan, now a junior at High Point University in North Caroline, decided to get involved with the Donate Life Campus Challenge in Heather’s honor. The Campus Challenge is a competition between other North Carolina colleges and universities to register the most organ donors during a period of time, and at the end of the challenge, High Point University was named the winner after registering more than 500 new donors and beating out other large schools in the challenge such as East Carolina University.
Read more:  http://livinglegacymd.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/ten-years-later-a-young-girls-legacy-still-inspires-others-to-give-the-gift-of-life/

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