NPR RADIO: The Gift

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The Gift
Story aired: Thursday, November 27, 2008

Listen:
http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/storage/2008/11/hereandnow_1127.rm?start=00:10

Grafton, Massachusetts resident Karl Chapin lost his right hand saving a fellow soldier from a grenade in the Vietnam war.

Decades later, Chapin made a sacrifice that saved another life. He donated a kidney to a total stranger, Ricardo Mermet, an immigrant from Argentina.

Chapin and Mermet join us to share their story.

http://www.here-now.org/shows/2008/11/20081127_1.asp