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Twist helps kidney donor save dad, husband

Tuesday - 7/23/2013, 3:30pm  ET

BALTIMORE (AP) -- When her father's kidneys failed, a Jessup woman who had already signed up to donate to a stranger through a paired exchange was told she would have to honor her previous commitment.


But the same day Stitt donated last month, her father, Richard Kern, got the call to go to the hospital for his transplant. Protocol didn't allow nurses and doctors to say so, but they all knew Kern was the next patient with her rare blood type.

