Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry is convalescing after his successful kidney transplant last week at Howard University Hospital, reports the Associated Press. He received a kidney from longtime friend and District native Kim Dickens. The Washington Post ran a story last weekend about Dickens’s decision to donate her kidney to the 72-year-old D.C. Council member—an operation that Barry said distracted him from filing his 2007 tax returns in a timely manner.