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Trent Thornhill with parents

Morgan Porter's hope chest holds the typical array of treasures that a 3-year-old girl would cherish, from stuffed animals to princess stickers. Then there are the other items – the art she drew in the atrium of MUSC's Chidren's Hospital, a sterilized heart pump and the sling she used with her mechanical Berlin Heart. The device helped her wait the almost six months it took to get a heart for her transplant that happened in the early morning hours of Jan. 25.

Morgan Porter enjoys some pet therapy at MUSC as she awaits a heart transplant that happened early in the morning hours Jan. 25. Watch a video at http://tinyurl.com/76u6zpg


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