Woman donates kidney to stranger, now they're getting married

NEW YORK (ABC) - A year ago, Ashley McIntyre decided to donate her kidney to a total stranger. Today, she's engaged to him, and their baby is due in June.

"As soon as we started dating -- not long after that -- was when we realized, this was it," McIntyre, 25, told ABC News.

It all started January 2014 when McIntyre overheard her mother and grandmother talking about a story they heard on the radio about a 25-year-old man her age in need of a kidney transplant.

They said this man had lost his father to brain cancer in 2012 and had had his house burned down on Christmas Day 2011, and McIntire's mother commented that if it weren't for her health problems, she would give him a kidney. She had type-O blood, which is the universal donor.

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