The moment Cindy Santos laid eyes on 5-year-old Katelynn Ernst again, she wrapped her arms tightly around the child.
In the foyer of Katelynn's Maidencreek Township home Friday, they clung to each other with an intensity that sprang from a special relationship.
Indeed, Santos, 45, a substitute teacher in Katelynn's kindergarten class at Richmond Elementary School, had given her student a most precious Christmas present: a kidney.
On Dec. 10, in adjoining operating rooms at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, surgeons removed Santos' left kidney and transplanted it into Katelynn.
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