JP resident Richard Gates, a musician and heart-transplant recipient, is making an 800-mile ride from Ohio to Boston to raise awareness about the importance of organ donations.
(Barbara Gates)
JAMAICA PLAIN
Playing it once again, from the heart
JP resident Richard Gates, a musician and heart-transplant recipient, is making an 800-mile ride from Ohio to Boston to raise awareness about the importance of organ donations.
(Barbara Gates)
If there's one snippet of the pop lexicon that musician Richard Gates of Jamaica Plain can relate to, it's Tom Petty's 1981 line "The waiting is the hardest part." (Full article: 730 words)
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