Mary Roach
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for a really good reason and good things happen.
So there's absolutely no reason for me not to have signed those papers.
What if they get you and they don't want you?
It is.
I was told by the folks at CORE in Pittsburgh, they're like,
I think it was 90% of people don't make the, it's Yale has a higher acceptance rate because it's like, you can't, there's so many diseases that you might've had also lifestyle things.
If there's any needles, like if you had a tattoo, have you used needle drugs?
Have you had sex with any used needle drugs?
Have you this, have you that?
Did you ever have this disease or that disease?
So they don't want a lot of people.
But if you get rejected, your feelings at that point can't be hurt.
Yeah, I love that like CORE, they give the person who's getting the body part, the bit of bone or whatever it is they're getting, they give them the option to write a letter to the family.
And I read some of those letters and they're so nice.
They're so lovely.
You've made this huge difference in the life of my husband or me or whatever.
And that goes to the family of the donor, which is lovely.
And I hope that they all do that because what a great thing to hear from the person who got
Your Achilles heel or whatever.
Yeah.