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One stranger’s selfless act of unspeakable generosity has resulted in a ripple effect of good deeds that involved at least a dozen people – and saved half a dozen lives.

21-year-old Brendan Flaherty had been attached to a dialysis machine and waiting for a kidney transplant for six years.

When no suitable donors had been found, his friend Philip Cameli stepped up to volunteer his kidney, but, as fate dictated, he was not a match. Meanwhile, a 44-year-old woman named Kimberly Cooper just walked into the hospital one day to sign-up to volunteer to give away her kidney, and the computer matched her to young Brendan.

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