Man gets life-saving kidney transplant thanks to his best friend and a stranger: 'Overwhelming feeling of gratefulness'

A California man received a life-saving transplant thanks to help from his best friend and a person he'd never met -- until now.Cory Slater and Curtis Choe are both married fathers of three. The two met in seventh grade and quickly became an inseparable duo, bonding over a love for sports and music.They ended up on different sides of the world. Choe is in San Diego and Slater is in Japan.For most of his life, Choe struggled with kidney health.

'Everything that happens in my life from here on out. Um, you're a part of it, you know, like all the memories I share with my family, all the experiences I have with my wife and all of that is because of Cory and you can't really, truly express that to somebody,' Choe said. 'An overwhelming feeling of gratefulness and love and you know, anything you ever need in life, I am here for you.'Choe, who never met Anderson, called her 'another angel on Earth.

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