<p>Courtney Montgomery, right, and her mother Michelle Mescall pose together at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., Thursday. Given a choice Courtney had refused a heart transplant; but then she met another teen who’d just had one, and was doing well.</p>
May 25, 2011
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May 25, 2011 9 p.m.
Teen bond overcomes girl's heart transplant fear
Healthy Lifestyles
WASHINGTON - Courtney Montgomery's heart was failing fast, but the 16-year-old furiously refused when her doctors, and her mother, urged a transplant.