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A Party for an Endangered Organ

NPR
Published March 27, 2001 at 12:00 AM EST

Writer John McIlwraith has been told he has stomach cancer, he will have surgery tomorrow. To prepare for the surgery he decided to celebrate his digestive organ in a unique way.

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