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May 2022
36m 19s

The 61-Year-Old Surrogate Who Gave Birth...

Oprah
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Original Air Date: 04/19/2011

Oprah interviews a 61-year-old woman, a retired mother of three, who gave birth to her own grandson after her daughter wasn’t able to get pregnant. Then, Oprah interviews NFL quarterback Charles Tillman about his daughter clinging to life at just three-months-old, and the angel family who saved her life through a heart transplant.

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