Jesse and Michelle Brown

By DEBRA DUNLAP

On Valentine’s Day, we often tell our loved ones, “I give you my heart.” Michelle Brown has gone far beyond that sentiment. She is giving her sweetheart one of her kidneys.

Michelle Wadsworth and Jesse Brown grew up together in Bowie. Buddies throughout high school, they ran with the same crowd and hung out together often.

The couple’s parents both still live in the Bowie area. Jesse’s parents are Jesse Sr. and Rosa Brown, and Michelle’s parents and Jimmy and Marie Wadsworth.

Jesse graduated from Bowie High School in 1988 and Michelle followed in 1989. As often happens with high school friends, the business of growing up, starting careers, and having families resulted in them losing touch with one another.

In 2010, the two reconnected on Facebook. Catching up with one another’s lives, they discovered that both of them were single again. Love bloomed, and the rest, as they say, is history. Read how Michelle is making plans to donate one of her healthy kidneys to her husband to save his life in the Valentine’s Day feature in your Saturday Bowie News. Pictured Jesse Brown and Michelle Wadsworth Brown