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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