Frank Pompa and Joely Sanders in the hospital in Tucson, Arizona; and Tracey and Tony Gonzalez in a Chicago hospital. (PHOTOS: Facebook/Joely Villalpando-Sanders/Advocate Health Care)
Life sometimes has a funny way of making things work out.
Tony Gonzalez of Illinois was desperate for a kidney donation so he could live a normal life, free of the dialysis machine which was keeping him alive.
He was lucky enough to find a match with an Arizona woman, Joely Sanders, who donated her kidney to him.
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