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I don't want to minimize or take anything away from the coverage of today's shooting in Texas, nor the issues that it recalls to the public discourse. At the same time, however, it's important to take a moment to provide some coverage of an event that isn't going to get any coverage and yet is no less a testimonial to the human condition.
A few weeks ago, the Bohrer family of Hugo, Minn., lived lives of uncertainty because Ashlyn, 15, had a failing heart. But when another family had the worst day imaginable, they got a call to drive to Milwaukee for a heart transplant.
https://www.facebook.com/ashlynsarmy/videos/640044106336886/
A lot of things have to go right and a lot of people have to dedicate their lives to someone else for a person to walk out of a hospital with a different heart than the one they had when they walked in.
Today, they went home.
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We're a pretty great species when we want to be.
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