A study of the heart
... See moreLast year I found my great grandma’s old diaries, they ranged from the moment she met my great grandpa until they got married, which was 16 years being together without a ring—from 1911 to 1927. As you may imagine, my great grandpa wasn’t the best man, he brought much pain to her and my family, but reading about it made me infinitely grateful for
It has been traditionally conceived that the heart functions solely as a pump responsible for receiving, transferring, and oxygenating blood. Numerous studies, particularly those conducted after heart transplantation surgeries, have observed instances where recipients' behavior has mirrored that of the donors in certain situations and circumstances
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Understood this way, then, the ongoing relationship with the gone is a lavishment to other loves, for it has made us exactly who we are — the person doing the loving, the person being loved, the mapmaker of present and possible worlds. O’Connor offers neural affirmation for this poetic aspiration: