Ponte Vedra teen receives new heart

Hunter Crain takes a break from looking over sports memorabilia donated by Palm Beach Autographs for a silent auction during the 2015 COTA Heart for Hunter Golf Classic at Atlantic Beach Country Club. The event helped raise money needed for Crain’s heart transplant, which he received in Gainesville. (photo by David Rosenblum)

Hunter Crain’s heart has always been filled with sports. His old heart, at least. Crain had spent most of the past three years on the heart transplant list, a decision doctors made late in 2013 as a result of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (LFHS) and a severely dilated right atrium, a complication of multiple heart surgeries Crain had as a child. Recently, Crain got the ...

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