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Eric Hartley: Staying alive a real reason to celebrate

Published 12/20/07

They're the kind of things everyone says: "Your health is what's really important." "Don't sweat the small stuff." "Don't take life for granted."

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Cliches all - until you meet people like Roger Brown and Dan McClanahan.

 

Friends and members of the same church in Severn, the two men both had organ transplants in 2004, a liver for Mr. Brown and a kidney and a pancreas for Mr. McClanahan.

On Tuesday evening, they joined about 300 other people for what looked like a typical holiday mixer. People sat around sipping out of plastic cups, eating hors d'oeuvres and sandwiches off tiny plates and catching up on kids and...

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