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Man donates kidney to wife’s cousin
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Diana Harper holds a photo of her cousin, Abby Tudor, and her husband, Michael Harper, that was taken in December before the two went to the hospital for a kidney transplant. - photo by Crystal Ledford
CUMMING — Not unlike many 26-year-olds, Michael Harper hadn’t given much thought to organ donation. But when Abby Tudor, the cousin of his wife Diana, was suddenly stricken with a mysterious problem that caused her kidneys to stop working, he soon became a proponent. Diana Harper described Tudor as a normal, healthy 24-year-old woman whose kidneys suddenly stopped working in January 2013.