... and gave her the best year of her life. It all started when she was 11 years old. Mandi Browning told her Mom that she felt her heart beating oddly. Her mother, Laurie Cavaliere, now a single Mom of four adult children (including the daughter of a former boyfriend whom she later adopted), and currently raising and parenting her two granddaughters, 6 and 9 years old, says she remembers that day clearly. Mandi was seated -yet her heart was beating so hard in her little che