'Delightful woman' places ad for new kidney

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The Internet may have mostly killed off the newspaper’s classifieds section, but newspapers are fighting back by allowing you to place ads soliciting internal organs. That’s what’s happening in Louisville, Ky., anyway, where Margot Kirchner placed an ad for her best friend, who needs a transplant, in the Southeast Outlook. The ad describes Margot’s friend as a “delightful woman in mid-40s, in need of kidney, blood type O Positive,” but cautions that “for personal and professional reasons the recipient would prefer to stay anonymous until an organ has been matched.”

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