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Cardiff Man Sends 10,000 Postcards - to Ask for a Kidney
By Fred Dickey
San Diego Union-Tribune
May 22, 2017
"We'd sit there, chat him up and ask questions. He would have a good time of it. But we always had a plan. We'd have a couple of key questions we wanted to get information on, remember the last day. I call him and say, ‘Hey, do you think you can stop by today?' He says, ‘Well, yeah, but I got a hot date, so I can't stay very long.' I say, ‘Well, that's fine. We only need about 10 minutes, maybe 15.' ‘Well, I can do that,' he says.
"He came in and we talked to him just for just a couple minutes. Then he stood up to go.' I says, ‘No, we're going to arrest you today.'
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