That fact is extraordinary, regardless of how much of the mechanism we can explain.

And the person at the center of that fact — Jean Hilliard, living quietly in Minnesota, working her job and living her life, carrying the gap of those six hours in her memory — is living proof that the impossible is sometimes not quite as impossible as it appears.

The cold kept her.

The medicine found her.

And the warmth, eventually, reclaimed her.

She has been warm ever since.