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The Night That Changed Everything About Dying In The Cold

On December 20, 1980, a 19-year-old woman in a winter coat and cowboy boots drove into a ditch on a Minnesota road at twenty-two below zero.

She walked toward help and collapsed fifteen feet short of a door.

She lay on a porch step for six hours in temperatures that should have killed her within one.

She was carried to a hospital and described, accurately, as appearing to be a piece of frozen meat.