When beloved Brookline professor and movie marketer Joseph Helfgot passed away during a heart operation, his family was given a tough choice: whether or not to donate his tissue for the Northeast's first face transplant. Joseph's widow tells a touching and surprising tale, weaving together the lives of two men through one medical miracle.
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