HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (WLS) -- A suburban school teacher and her students are celebrating her new chance at life.

There was a warm welcome in Hoffman Estates into a new chapter of life - a chapter Katie Pappas was uncertain she would ever be able to write.

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ABC7 Chicago first met Pappas six months ago . She learned she had gone into kidney failure for the second time after already having gone through a transplant surgery nearly a decade ago.

"They said, 'With everything your body has been through... you've already had a transplant you don't have seven years to wait. And you need to find a living donor,'" Pappas said.

On Wednesday, ABC7 was introduced to Katie 3.0.

After months grueling through dialysis, the beloved District U-

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