Claire Rossi loved giving gifts – and her most important one saved a Long Island grandfather’s life.

Rossi became an “angel” to Carlos Riley when her Patchogue family donated the late great-grandmother’s liver to the Commack native – paving the way for a heartfelt meeting Monday.

“What she did, she didn’t know me, she just did it for somebody to save a life,” said an emotional Riley, 65, in front of Rossi’s relatives, including her husband of 55 years, at the headquarters for the nonprofit organ-donation group LiveOn NY in Long Island City, Queens. 3

“Without her, I won’t be here,” said Rossi, who was within months of dying without the organ donation.

“She was like my angel,” he said of the 70-year-old Rossi. “Just put it that way, she was my angel. She saved my life, in combinati

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