See larger Rotary Club member Joan Loft gets a hug from her house guest Milagrosa Silva , 8, Tuesday before she and her mother Elida Oropeza are driven to Joe DiMaggio Chidren's Hospital where Silva will receive life-saving heart surgery on Friday. The two were flown in from Venezuela by the Rotary Club of Estero to receive the surgery. Silva was born with only one ventricle and without the surgery, she would not make it to her teen years.

Photo by MICHEL FORTIER, Daily News

Rotary Club member Joan Loft gets a hug from her house guest Milagrosa Silva , 8, Tuesday before she and her mother Elida Oropeza are driven to Joe DiMaggio Chidren's Hospital where Silva will receive life-saving heart surgery on Friday. The two were flown in from Venezuela by the Rotary Club of Estero to receive the surgery. Silva was born with only one ventricle and without the surgery, she would not make it to her teen years.

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