But the application of that principle is not magic; it is physics and biology.

The warming of a severely hypothermic patient is a matter of raising the temperature of the body’s tissues, degree by degree, until the chemical reactions that constitute life resume.

Jean Hilliard’s body underwent that process, and it responded to it — which is remarkable, but not incomprehensible.

Jean Hilliard’s Life After

Jean Hilliard did not remain famous.

The intense media attention of early 1981 — the Today Show appearances, the newspapers, the national interest in “The Miracle Girl from Lengby, Minnesota” — faded as the year progressed and other stories took their place.

She returned to her life.