Recently, I offered my own, tragic in ways, yet inspiring story. Here, I offer a wholly inspiring one, of Hannah Clark of Great Britain, the kind of amazing story that has helped keep me alive for these 30-plus years. Her full story, which can be found here, details how surgeons grafted a donor heart “directly onto her own failing heart.”

Clark, 16, had, for a period of 10 years, in fact, two hearts:

After 10 years with two blood-pumping organs, Hannah Clark’s faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: It healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donated heart. — The Associated Press

The heart, according to Dr. Douglas Zipes, a past president of the American College of Cardiology, has “major regenerative powers, and it is now key to find out how they work.”