Gift of life

Shannon Pipes was born with one kidney, and it was covered in scar tissue. For most of her childhood, the kidney functioned, but in the last few years, she has had to undergo dialysis for as long as 11 hours a day, every day. Pipes, 20, quit her job as a cashier at Winn-Dixie on Front Beach Road because of her health, but not before meeting and falling in love with one of the store's managers, William Burton. The love was mutual and the timing was perfect. The couple became engaged two years ago