He never got a mother-son dance — so a Central Texas groom danced with the woman living with his mom’s lungs

STEPHENVILLE, Texas (KWTX) – At a Central Texas wedding in May, the traditional mother-son dance looked different — and it stopped guests in their tracks.

Groom Matthew Firth, who lives in Austin and is originally from Belton, stepped onto the dance floor not with his own mother, but with Carrie Giddens of Frisco — the woman who received his mother’s lungs after she became an organ donor 13 years ago.

“It would have truly felt like she wasn’t there at all, so I kind of felt her presence,” Firth said…

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