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Gainesville man discovers hes the perfect match for stranger in need of an organ donation
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Lisa and Chris Miller stand outside the American Red Cross Monday afternoon after handing out fliers to raise funds for a kidney transplant. Chris will be donating his kidney to a woman the couple met through Facebook who has been searching for an organ donor nearly three years. - photo by J. Bryan Stiles
Four years ago, Lisa Miller played a game on Facebook that started a life-changing chain of events. While playing the Facebook game Farm Town, Miller met the mother of a young woman in Idaho, who was being treated for renal failure as a result of spina bifida. The woman told Miller all about her daughter’s ailing health and how she desperately needed a kidney transplant.