My Friend Nancy Is Amazing

As she began hearing about the people looking for donors, Cottman's story struck a chord. Tests showed them to be a match. He is African-American and she is a lesbian, which put both of them "on the outside of society in some ways," Murrell explained. "I'm not nervous about it. I keep expecting to be nervous, but mostly I'm just really excited to be part of something like this," she said. "It's for Anthony, and to make the world a better place, but it's also just really, really interesting. It's an adventure." New York Daily News