Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: (CNN) Rod Carew likely doesn't remember the first time he interacted with Konrad Reuland. It was the late 1990s and Reuland was a sixth-grader in Southern California. Reuland told his mother one day, 'Mom, I met Rod Carew today!" the Orange County Register reported. Almost 20 years later, they are forever together. Reuland was an organ donor; after he died in December, his heart and a kidney went to Carew, who desperately needed a heart. On Friday, the American Heart Association revealed the story of how the families of the baseball legend and the young NFL player who passed away after a brain aneurysm learned of unusual circumstances surrounding the gift to Carew.Konrad Reuland died in December after a brain aneurysmRod Carew, one of MLB's greatest hitters, received football player's heart 
 Question:Reuland's mother was told the recipient was a 71-year-old man from _.

Southern California