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 | The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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An Icebox, A Live Heart And The Man Who Drove & Drove In some ways, it was surprising that any good could ever come of a cadaver, a heart failure and a vehicle with a live heart in its trunk tearing through a crowded city. That it did on June 16, 2014 in Chennai, and that more than 50 people coordinated the whole thing with surreal precision to save a life, could tempt one to use words like ‘miracle’ or ‘aberration’. But in truth, it was already the city’s eighth time this year: a heart transplant made possible by someone’s supreme generosity, a government organ registry’s bureaucratic brilliance and the police’s logistical enthusiasm. { read more } Be The Change Sometimes we are the ambulance driver, and sometimes we are the pedestrian, just trying to get out of the way for the ambulance to pass. Both matter. Find a friend and reflect on times when you have been in both roles and how both transformed your awareness of our interconnection. |
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