A Hernando County mother heard her son's heart beat for the first time in years, years after he died.
Vicky Brannon's 14-year-old son Matthew was killed in 1996 and Brannon donated his organs.
Two decades later, Brannon met the woman who got Matthew's heart.
"He's been right with her and she has felt that," she said.
Jennifer Lentini was 13 when she got Matthew's heart. She lives in New York and says the heart saved her life.
"It's almost as if I have a second family," she said. "It's wonderful."
"Just wonderful to know his heart is still beating," Brannon said.
Lentini came to meet Brannon and her family in Spring Hill on Valentine's Day. The cell phone camera was rolling when Vicky listened to her son's heart.
"It was beautiful," Brannon said. "I haven't heard it since we did sonograms when he was in my belly."
It took a while, but Lentini was able to hunt down Brannon and her family because she had something to say.
"For years all I ever wanted to do is say thank you," Lentini said. "I knew there was nothing I could buy them and not enough words in the dictionary for me to say thank you. I just wanted to say you gave me the gift of life."
The two women are now a lot more than just friends. They talk all the time.
Lentini has a message for Matthew.
"The first thing I would probably do is give him a hug and then I would tell him thank you for being my lifesaver," she said.
"I know he is happy that she got his heart because she deserved it," Brannon said.
Lentini is heavily involved in organ donor awareness. She is doing the work in memory of Matthew.