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'A Small Part' Is A Great Read   by Bill Hannan - Sun Chronicle
	The story Betsy Johnson wrote about Kenneth Anderson of Rehoboth and his donation of a kidney to his brother Michael was complete as well as interesting and well-written. It ran several weeks ago. Betsy's story included the fact that Ken Anderson had written "A Small Part of Me", a book about his experience as a donor. I recently read the nine chapter book, which is why I am writing this. It is so well-written that it's like the work of a professional writer and better than many professional writer's efforts. Red Smith, who did nothing but good writing, said in a foreword or preface to W.C. Heinz's "The Professional" that the one thing that makes writing good is truth. There is a ring of truth in everything Anderson writes in "A Small Part of Me". There also are pictures of the brothers, their wives and an especially touching one of the recovering Michael with his two children and a message they have composed for Uncle Ken. The book is well-organized and so carefully written that it would not be fair to try to summarize any of it here except to quote one of the messages: "The patient always comes first at the Boston University Medical Center Hospital and the Doctors Office Building (adjoining)." The dedication is well worthy of mention: "To the Good Lord / For helping Mike and me through this adventure and beyond." Anderson, when he gave his book it's title, "A Small Part of Me" was referring to his donated kidney. Probably that is a good description of a kidney. He ought to know. When you have read the book, you know "a small part" would never describe his heart.
Local Brothers Teach Classic Loyalty Lesson  - Sun Chronicle Editorial
	One of the ancient Greeks' great lessons of loyalty and brotherhood is told in the myth of Castor and Pollux, where Pollux sacrifices his own immortality in exchange for the resurrection of his mortal half-brother Castor. Zeus later makes the two into the twin stars of the Gemini constellation. Hardly less inspiring is the down-to-earth story of the Anderson brothers. Two years ago Ken Anderson, 41, of Rehoboth, allowed one of his kidneys to be transplanted to Michael Anderson, 38, of Attleboro, when he was diagnosed with renal failure. Ken Anderson has since written a book, "A Small Part of Me," that he hopes will encourage others to consider becoming living donors for kidney transplant patients. Anderson points to statistics from the United Network for Organ Sharing in Richmond, VA., that of 10,643 kidney transplants in 1994, just 3,004 were from living donors. Yet, points out the author, when a family member donates a kidney the gift saves a cadaver kidney for someone else, making the gift even more bountiful than it appears. We salute both brothers for their example of selflessness and hope that "A Small Part of Me" finds its way to places where it can help save lives.