Great Gifts: Sally Sael on Organ Donation in NYT

Sally Satel writes about her search for a kidney in the NY Times magazine. She’s an engaging writer, with no illusions about herself:

I wouldn’t leave children motherless or miss the milestones of life; were I a prospective donor, even I wouldn’t have picked me.

Reading that sentence, who wouldn’t pick her?

After some false starts and near misses, Satel gets a kidney from a “fond acquaintance”–writer Virginia Postrel.

Satel writes:

My story, it turns out, is a triumph of altruism.

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