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Surprise Reunion from a Navy Dad, the Gift of a Kidney and Support for a Transgender Teen: Patch’s 2012 Year in Review

What do you think were some of the biggest stories from Patch’s Ohio sites in 2012? Tell us in the comments.

 
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Cleveland Heights: Marcus Thomas Staffer Becomes Kidney Donor For His Coworker
Cleveland Heights resident Jim Sollisch gave his boss a once-in-a-lifetime gift this year: one of his kidneys. Sollisch offered to donate a kidney to Joanne Kim, who has an immune disease that affects the kidneys. The friends both work at advertising agency Marcus Thomas and were doing well months after the surgery. http://patch.com/A-w4wW
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This fall, a fight between an RTA driver and passenger culminated in an uppercut punch to the female passenger—and it was all caught on video. Patch readers and Twitter users had plenty to say about it. The driver was later fired, and both faced charges. <a href="http://patch.com/A-y8S7">http://patch.com/A-y8S7</a> Credit Screenshot via YouTube
Middle school students in Cuyahoga Falls staged a protest last spring to let school officials know they weren’t happy with how bullying incidents were being addressed. The principal told students that the school would begin holding weekly forums on bullying. <a href="http://patch.com/A-r8jg">http://patch.com/A-r8jg</a> Credit John Deike
Mayfield Heights resident Marco Gianfagna disappeared in July. He was found dead about a week later. <a href="http://patch.com/A-wHY8">http://patch.com/A-wHY8</a> Credit Photo courtesy of Gianfagna family
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As the year ends, we're taking a look at some of the most-read local stories on Ohio’s Patch sites in 2012.

The stories above are the ones that our readers read and responded to the most. They had long discussions in the comments and shared them on Facebook and Twitter. Many of the stories are of loss in our Patch communities, but others, like the video of the Navy dad's homecoming on Fairlawn-Bath Patch or the story of an employee who gave his boss a kidney on Cleveland Heights Patch, inspire hope. 

Click through the gallery above for a brief look at some of the most-read local Patch stories of 2012 or click on the headlines below for the full stories. 

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