3-Year-Old Gets New Liver, Thanks to Facebook

November 14, 2014

Firefighter Michael Thompson donated 25 percent of his liver on Tuesday to help save 3-year-old Kennedy McCoy of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, reports CBS News. Donya McCoy, one of Thompson’s former high school classmates, had made a plea on Facebook for help saving her daughter — and Thompson said he was inspired to act.

“One of the greatest things I will probably do in my life, give more…

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