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“I didn’t know that was even an option,” I said.
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“It’s rare,” Dr. Whitfield said. “It requires compatibility, obviously, along with considerable additional paperwork and ethical review. Julian had a specific person in mind.”
“Who?” I asked.
“A patient named Desmond Kessler,” Dr. Whitfield said. “He and Julian met in the cardiac unit’s waiting area, back in your husband’s third month of treatment. Desmond was in heart failure himself, on the transplant list, considerably further along in his own decline than Julian was at the time.”
