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Shawn has a new kidney after years of waiting. Though the transplant was a success, the mood is more somber than celebratory. My donor was my 13-year-old daughter.
经过多年的等待，肖恩（Shawn）终于有了一个新的肾脏。尽管移植手术很成功，但却没心情庆祝，反而很沉重。我的捐赠者是我13岁的女儿。
13-year-old Symaria was a joyful, healthy girl who her mom Dhima says dreamt of becoming an actress. Symaria was my first born. She was the answer to prayers.
13岁的塞玛丽亚（Symaria）是一个快乐、健康的女孩，她妈妈Dhima说她想成为一名演员。塞玛丽亚是我的长女。她是上天的恩赐。
Tragedy hit when the teen suffered a sudden brain bleed. With her family by her side, Symaria was declared brain dead in the hospital.
当这名青少年突然脑出血时，悲剧发生了。在家人的陪伴下，塞玛丽亚在医院被宣布脑死亡。
Wanting to save the lives of other children, her family made the decision to donate her organs.
为了挽救其他孩子的生命，她的家人决定捐献她的器官。
When she was in the hospital, I was praying for a miracle, and then later realized that her existence, her life in itself was the miracle.
当她住院时，我祈祷奇迹出现，后来才意识到她的存在，她的生命本身就是奇迹。
Six of her organs were donated to five people across the country. One of them was her own father, Shawn.
她的六个器官捐献给了全国各地的五个人。其中一人就是她自己的父亲肖恩。
Symaria, as well as Shawn's four other children, had no idea that their dad was on dialysis.
塞玛丽亚以及肖恩的其他四个孩子都不知道他们的父亲正在接受透析。
So I tried to shield them as much as possible from it because I didn't want them to Google kidney failure and see that they could donate an organ to me, because I would tell them absolutely not.
我尽可能地保护他们，因为我不想让他们搜索肾衰竭并看到他们可以捐赠器官，因为我会告诉他们绝对不行。
He had been on the organ donor list since 2020. As it turns out, Symaria's kidney was a match.
自2020年以来，他一直在等待器官捐献。事实证明，塞玛丽亚的肾脏和他匹配。
After saying goodbye to his daughter, he went into surgery the next day to receive her kidney as a transplant.
告别女儿后，他第二天就接受了手术，接受了女儿的肾脏移植。
From that day on, that's all I've been thinking about is having part of her in me. A lot of her vital organs saved a lot of people, including me. She's a hero, you know.
从那天起，我一直在想的就是让她成为我的一部分。她的很多重要器官救了很多人，包括我。她是一位英雄。
