The Minnesota Woman Who Froze Solid Overnight — And The Medical Miracle That Saved Her Life
Not the mystery of how it happened — science has reasonable answers for that, within a framework that leaves some details unresolved.
But the mystery of what it means for a human body to come back from the edge that Jean Hilliard’s body approached on that December night.
The cold took everything it could take.
The body gave ground on all the fronts it could afford to give ground on.
And at the innermost position — the position that had to hold for the program to keep running — something held.
A heartbeat.
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