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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County probation officer saved his own mother and a stranger through a kidney transplant chain.
Michael Valdez, 37, and Danielle Jones, a Las Vegas teacher, met for the first time Tuesday at the UCLA Medical Plaza. Valdez wanted to donate a kidney to his mother, Nora Cruz, but the two were not a match, so he agreed to take part in a kidney transplant chain.
After Cruz received a kidney from someone else, he donated one of his to Jones, who did not have a donor of her own.
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