Source: In These Times
by Sarah Lazare
“Leslie Begay sets aside the last few bites of his BLT. It’s something he does every meal as an offering for the person who gave him his lungs, he explains at a family-run diner in Gallup, N.M. Every morning and evening, Begay prays for the person whose organ donation, four years ago, saved his life. He doesn’t know their identity. … He is the only person he knows who got a double lung transplant. When his friends, coworkers and family members got sick, they died. They moved heaven and earth to get what they wanted when they needed it. But they will not move heaven and earth to clean up the mess they left behind.” (12/01/25)