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Woman Gives Kidney to Stranger
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Detroit, Michigan - Suzanne Fales, 55, of Howell, Michigan (left), is the first person in Michigan to donate one of her kidneys anonymously to a stranger. On December 4, in simultaneous operations, one of her kidneys was removed and donated to Grace Drake, 43 (right), a registered nurse from Southfield, Michigan, who had been on dialysis for a year and a half. Neither woman had met, or even knew who the other was, until brought together December 19 by doctors at St. John Hospital in Detroit, where the surgeries were performed. Drake's husband looks on as the two women meet for the first time.
© Jim West
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