Misplaced modifiers yet again

[Joel S. Berson]

The headline to the "Coupling" column in today's Boston Globe Sunday Magazine:

"You Complete Me: Facing a grim medical diagnosis, my twin sister
gave her husband the ultimate gift."

Anticipating an uplifting story of a loving but dying wife's gift of
an essential organ to her severely ill husband, I read the whole
essay -- only to discover that the wife was quite healthy.  (She gave
one of her kidneys to relieve her husband's polycystic kidney disease.)

I feel cheated.

Joel

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