The Heart Never Forgets

I read this on Drudge's headlines: Man With Suicide Victim's Heart Kills Self

Twelve years ago, Sonny Graham received a heart transplant from a donor who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sonny killed himself on Tuesday in the same way. But get this...

Sonny was married to a woman named Cheryl, as in the former Cheryl Cottle, widow of Terry Cottle, the man whose heart was beating in Sonny's chest.

After he received his transplant, Sonny wrote letters to Terry's family. He eventually met Cheryl and fell in love with the woman, thirty years his junior.

"I felt like I had known her for years," Graham told The (Hilton Head) Island Packet for a story in 2006. "I couldn't keep my eyes off her. I just stared."

Wow.