By any measure, Marcia Lortscher's life and legacy were extraordinary, but there were few signs of her exceptionalism in her first three decades. She was born and raised in a comfortable middle-class Catholic home in Denver, and her family espoused conservative values. Finishing college before the 1970s feminist revolution, she explored several potential career paths before marrying in her late twenties. Marcia could have settled comfortably into a conventional housewife's role, but fate intervened. Diagnosed as a diabetic at age ten, her kidneys failed shortly after her marriage. Doctors initially demurred at performing a kidney transplant on anyone whose life expectancy was measured in weeks. However, she was accepted as an experiment and became the world's longest living diabetic kidney transplant recipient, surviving for thirty-six years. Although she experienced a ceaseless array of harrowing medical problems and went blind in her early forties, she devoted her life to...

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