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Caruso shared her experiences with over 200,000 followers on TikTok, becoming an inspiration and advocate for organ donation.

She outlived her initial prognosis by two decades, graduating high school and college and working several jobs.

Amanda Caruso died as she pursued a second double lung transplant.

Amanda Caruso, who inspired countless people across social media recounting her experiences as a lung transplant recipient, died this month. She was 28.

A lung disease diagnosed in Caruso's infancy led her to receive a double lung transplant when she was 17 months old. Late this summer, she underwent a second transplant in Philadelphia that did not achieve the hoped-for results. She died Sept. 9.

"When her health again became difficult, she never allowed this to st

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