In their grief, Judy Thompson and her husband didn’t discuss it. They looked at each other and said yes when a man at a Missouri hospital asked if they would donate their daughter Davi’s organs. The next day, on what would have been Davi’s 35th birthday, a woman and a man in Dallas received her lungs and her heart. More than six years later, after a whirl of paperwork and cards and emails and phone calls, Thompson drove from Missouri to Dallas to meet the organ recipients for the first time. Days before the trip Saturday, she had asked herself, “What have I done?” But on Sunday, at...
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