I gave my younger sister a kidney because I thought family meant sacrifice. A month later, one wrong glance at a phone screen turned a quiet family dinner into the night everything in my life cracked open.
When my younger sister Clara needed a kidney transplant, I gave her mine.
I did not hesitate. I did not make a spreadsheet. I did not ask for time.
When they told us I was a match, I said yes before they finished the sentence.
Clara stared at me from her hospital bed and said, “You’d really do that?”
I remember looking at him and thinking, I picked the right man.
“Of course I would,” I said.
She started crying. “I don’t even know what to say.”
“You can say thank you and then stop being dramatic for five minutes.”
She laughed and cried at the same time. “Thank you.”
My husband Evan squeezed my shoulder and said, “You are saving her life.”
I remember looking at him and thinking, I picked the right man.
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