The Donor Who Never Knew Her Name

In 2018, a stranger in Memphis walked into a kidney donation center and offered one of her kidneys to anyone who needed it. No specific recipient. No family connection. No obligation. Her name was Patricia Winters, a retired schoolteacher who had read about the growing transplant waiting list and simply decided she would give what she could. The man who received her kidney, thirty-four-year-old Marcus Bellamy, had been on dialysis for three years.…