The hug of life... how Chloe saved a stranger

WHEN Chloe Skidmore donated her stem cells to save a stranger's life she wondered who she had given a second chance to.

- BY LUCY LAING

At the time, her mum Karen Hanson gave her a charm consisting of two hearts - representing the fact that two hearts had just become one.

It was Chloe's dream to meet her "other" heart one day and find out whose life she had saved.

That dream came true when she got a letter from her recipient Sharon Farrow, who lives in the US, and they met in London.

Chloe, 30, who lives with partner Rob Muggleton, also 30, in Desborough, Northants, said: "I was so nervous to meet Sharon but from the moment we saw each other all that anxiety melted away. It was a weird feeling, it felt like we'd known each other forever, an indescribable bond."

Chloe had joined the Anthony Nolan donor register at university as a friend's flatmate was battling leukaemia.