Lea Jones didn’t want to wait years on a list to receive a kidney while enduring painful dialysis.

Instead, he sent out an e-mail to his faith community in Owings Mills last spring, explaining his plight of advanced kidney failure and asking anyone with type O blood to consider being a donor.

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