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Published February 14, 2011, 11:25 AM

Happy Valentine's Day, here's my kidney

Ron Spanier of Lake Henry, Minn., and fiance Amy Anderson of Sartell, Minn., are spending Tuesday at University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview where they're preparing for Anderson to donate a kidney to Spanier.

By: Associated Press,

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A Minnesota man will get a Valentine's Day gift that you can't put a price on.

Ron Spanier of Lake Henry and fiance Amy Anderson of Sartell are spending Tuesday at University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview where they're preparing for Anderson to donate a kidney to Spanier.

He's been on dialysis since last summer because of a disease that caused cysts in his kidneys.

The two have a three-month-old son. Spanier jokes that since Anderson gave him his first-born and a kidney, he figured he'd marry her.

Anderson tells the St. Cloud Times she understands the stress of medical problems.

Her first husband died of a stroke three years ago. Anderson has two other children from that marriage, a 10-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son.

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