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Every organ donor makes a choice that echoes long after they’re gone. For Melissa Reynolds, two such choices, made by two strangers, kept her here to do the work she was born to do. On the evening of October 9, 2024, Melissa Reynolds walked into Hartford Hospital not knowing she would not walk out again for four months. She hadn’t planned to be admitted. She had gone from her endocrinologist’s office directly to the emergency department at her doctor’s insistence, bags unpack