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	"Woman visits her own heart at exhibition"

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7aa9d2d2-dfc2-4a0a-8c1b-68991d02e271/8EBBD312-B0F4-4042-BFDC-009A07590322/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/956741/woman-visits-her-own-heart-at-exhibition.thtml" href="http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/956741/woman-visits-her-own-heart-at-exhibition.thtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.forteantimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/956741/woman-visits-her-own-heart-at-exhibition.thtml"><H2 class="blogsheader"><A href="http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/956741/woman-visits-her-own-heart-at-exhibition.thtml">Woman visits her own heart at exhibition</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/956741/woman-visits-her-own-heart-at-exhibition.thtml"><P>Transplant patient Jennifer Sutton paid a visit to an exhibition in London called <SPAN>The Heart</SPAN> today, mainly to check out a particular item on display - her own heart.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/956741/woman-visits-her-own-heart-at-exhibition.thtml"><P>Jennifer, 23, from the New Forest, UK, had a heart transplant at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, on 4 June 2007. She lent her heart to the <A href="http://www.wellcomecollection.org" target="_blank">Wellcome Collection</A> for the<SPAN> </SPAN>exhibition to increase public awareness of donation and Restrictive Cardiomyopathy, the disease that would have killed her.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/956741/woman-visits-her-own-heart-at-exhibition.thtml"><P>As you might imagine, she found the experience very odd and moving.  "Seeing my heart for the first time is an emotional and surreal experience. It caused me so much pain and turmoil when it was inside me. Seeing it sitting here is extremely bizarre and very strange. Finally I can see this odd looking lump of muscle that has given me so much upset. It's tremendous it has become an object of fascination and will get people thinking about the disease, heart transplants and organ donation."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/956741/woman-visits-her-own-heart-at-exhibition.thtml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.forteantimes.com/img/721EDA26-1B6E-425F-92A7-25061FF9F060" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8EBBD312-B0F4-4042-BFDC-009A07590322/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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