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‘We all bleed the same.’ Couple wants kidney transplant to be message of kindness.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. — Aaron and Tonya Rhoden always have big ideas together. They eloped in Hawaii in 2016, when he proposed at sunset on a mountain in Maui, and she wanted to get married the very next day.

Preparing for a kidney transplant together is another life challenge the couple is tackling together. In a surgery later this month, Tonya, 41, will give Aaron, 50, one of her kidneys.

It’s a big moment for the Naperville couple, left in a holding pattern since a 2019

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