Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Mother, behold your son
Associated Press · February 3, 1965
Ending a 7,000-mile journey from Nigeria, Mrs. Asabi Adedire adjusts her headband as she meets her son, Abraham Adedire, 26, in the University of Michigan Hospital. She is volunteering a kidney for a transplant to the young chemist. Doctors say he has an "irreversible kidney disease." (From left are Mrs. Adedire; her son's daughter Ronke, 3; his wife Margaret, and their other daughter Tayo, 2.)
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