US Today | Aaron Nathans, The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal
Musician Reggie Harris was the recipient of a liver transplant in 2008 that was harvested at Christiana Hospital in Delaware. The transplant saved his life and he is healthy now.(Photo: Daniel Sato, The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal)
PHILADELPHIA -- Reggie Harris has long made music with a sense of purpose, telling the story of how Harriet Tubman helped fugitives steal through slave states, and sharing songs of the civil rights movement.
That sense of purpose helped his husband-and-wife acoustic duo share its trademark positive energy, despite a degenerative liver condition that weakened him to the point he bathed five times a day to ease the itch that had overtaken his body.
But just as things looked grim, a second chance arrived five years ago from an anonymous liver donor who died in Delaware. Harris, 61, said he is thankful he will continue to be able to travel the world telling Tubman's story, as well as his own deliverance from sickness, thanks to the organ transplant.
"The gift that I have came from somebody else, so I can pay that forward," he said.
That sense of purpose helped his husband-and-wife acoustic duo share its trademark positive energy, despite a degenerative liver condition that weakened him to the point he bathed five times a day to ease the itch that had overtaken his body.
But just as things looked grim, a second chance arrived five years ago from an anonymous liver donor who died in Delaware. Harris, 61, said he is thankful he will continue to be able to travel the world telling Tubman's story, as well as his own deliverance from sickness, thanks to the organ transplant.
"The gift that I have came from somebody else, so I can pay that forward," he said.
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