The 17-year-old boy, identified by his surname, "Zheng", said that he had sold the kidney after spotting an online advertisement offering cash to the organ donor.

这个姓郑的17岁男孩说，他从网上看到一则广告说器官捐献者可以获得现金，于是就卖掉了自己的肾。

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They didn't pay me with cash, instead they gave me a car, ' the shy boy answered.

这名腼腆的男子回答，“他们没给我钱，他们给了我一辆车。”

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The waitress served him the ice-cream and the bill. The boy ate his ice-cream, paid his bill at the cash counter and left.

那服务生给他上了一份普通雪糕。那男孩吃完雪糕后，在柜台付了钱离开。

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Kurada said that when she told the Cookie Monster that her husband needed to get cash, the shaggy blue creature pushed the boy and began calling her and the child obscene names.

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So does his girlfriend, Ella, who lives with her little boy in the Pink Flamingo trailer park and earns the extra cash she needs by competing in the weekly Hump Day Honey Bikini Contest, held at the Happy Wednesday bar.

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