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209. Make Me a Match

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The Kidney Exchange - The One Act of Kindness by a Non Directed Donor

ray book donated his kidney as a paired donor so that his wife, julie park, could get a kidney from a stranger. That recipient had also come into the kidney exchange with some one willing to give her a kidney, but she wasn't a match. This person in georgia who received ray's kidney, her daughter the same day, went to the operating room and donated her kidney. And that kidney stayed right there in the same hospital and went to somebody on the deceased owner waiht list who didn't have a living donor available to them. So this one act of kindness by jodie shakeley wright, who donated out of the goodness of her heart,

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