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The family of 11-year-old heart transplant recipient Ava Cooper is thankful for her second chance at life after a lengthy wait on the transplant list ended in a miracle moment that has since gone viral.

"Daddy, I’m getting a heart!" Ava Cooper shouted in the clip.

"Are you serious? Oh, my goodness," her father, Sean Cooper, responded.

Ava Cooper received her transplant in March and is looking ahead to a return to school, her family shared with Fox News on Friday — closing a grueling chapter that included over 200 days in the hospital.

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"I just get to live a normal life now and do the things I want to do," Ava Cooper said on " Fox & F

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