GRANBURY, Texas — More than 20,000 people in the United States receive successful kidney transplants each year. But few, if any, of those success stories are like the one you can find in Granbury.

That's because the donor and the recipient would, under most circumstances, probably not even be willing to be in the same room with each other.

Amanda and Angela beg to differ.

"God works in mysterious ways," Angela Maples told us from her Christmas-decorated living room in Granbury.

Mysterious ways that began when she got sick. An autoimmune disease attacked her kidneys, leading to complete kidney failure. She reverted to peritoneal dialysis at home, more than a dozen hours a day, to stay alive.

"It was an out-of-body experience," she says of the first time she attempted traditional dialys

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