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Idaho family reunites with son’s heart recipient at Balloon Fiesta [Video]

An Idaho family reunited with the recipient of their late son’s heart at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, marking their first visit to the event.”Jordan was the kindest, the funniest, the most caring teenage boy,” said a family member.Jordan Breen, 15, died in a two-vehicle accident in Pocatello, Idaho, on Christmas Day in 2021.His family traveled to Albuquerque this week because Jordan saved four lives by donating his organs, including his heart, which now beats inside 64-year-old Albuquerque resident Darryl Armstrong.Armstrong was in heart failure due to cancer treatments at the time of Jordan’s death.”And had you not received that heart? I would have died.”Armstrong volunteers with New Mexico Donor Services.The nonprofit, through its balloon sponsorships at the Fiesta, gifted Armstrong’s donor family with the trip to Albuquerque so they could meet the man who lives because of their loved one.”Even though he’s not here on earth, I know that he’s …

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