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Hooters Waitress Gives Kidney to Customer

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Not in a weird way, in a sweet way, we swear.

“Don Thomas is a longtime regular at the Hooters in Roswell. But it’s not the beer or the chicken wings that bring him back. Instead, it’s the generosity of one of the waitresses.

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“Mariana had only been here a short time,” Thomas said. “I just barely knew her when she made the offer.” The offer was the gift of life. Thomas lost both his kidneys. “I said, ‘Well I have two kidneys, do you want one of mine?'” said Mariana Villarreal, a waitress at Hooters. “My reply was, ‘I will accept it,'” Don said.”

Both are out of surgery, and it was seen as a success.

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