My life changed in a big way when I woke up on Dec 18, 2012 with a heart that wasn’t my own anymore. I knew it had also changed for a family that I didn’t know. I remember hoping that they would want to be in touch. I remember wondering..who did this heart love? And who loved it back? There is nothing that I have accomplished since that day that I don’t give my donor Kristin credit for because we do it together. I am able because of her, and she is able because of me. I thank her everyday I rise and look into the eyes of the man that I love and head to the studio to do my life’s work. I would soon find out later that my new heart belonged to a beautiful woman named Kristin. When I first saw a picture of her I couldn’t wait to know more about her. Sometime the next year I started communicating with one of her brothers, and I would soon find out she had a daughter. I don’t know whether it was my motherly instinct or Kristin’s but the impulse and need to make sure she was ok was real! ...