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Unkindest cut

ANCHORAGE: A woman here in freezing Alaska, upset about an impending break-up with her boyfriend, cut off his genital organ and flushed it down a toilet. Utility workers recovered the severed part, and surgeons reattached it. Kim Tran, 35, was arraigned on charges of assault, domestic violence and tampering with evidence. She remained jailed in Anchorage, with no bail set. A police spokeswoman, Anita Shell, said the injury to the 44-year-old man was "brutal, brutal." The couple was arguing on Saturday because the man, whose name was not released, wanted to end the year-old relationship, Ms. Shell said. The pair decided to go to bed, and the man agreed to have his arms tied to a window handle above their bed. The woman pulled out a kitchen knife and went to work. She drove the man to the hospital and helped him to a nurses' station. Water utility workers retrieved the organ, and the police said surgery to re-attach it was successful. — AP

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