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Nassau BOCES teacher donates kidney to student
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | Jennifer Mazzotta-Perretti, 32, of Levittown, gave her student Kevin O'Brien one of her kidneys. (Sept. 15, 2009)
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Teacher donates kidney to student
Jennifer Mazzotta-Perretti never expected that, after giving students an assignment to write about their experiences doing good deeds, she would have the opportunity to do one herself.
One student in her summer creative writing class at Nassau BOCES in Wantagh posed the question: Would you give life to someone else if you didn't have to give up your own? She said yes, she would.
Then...
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