Steeply's Jarvik-heart article — "That the prosthetic crime victim gave…"

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That the prosthetic crime victim gave spirited chase for over four blocks before collapsing onto her empty chest is testimony to the impressive capacity of the Jarvik IX replacement procedure, was the anonymous comment of a public medical official reached for comment by Moment.

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"Helen" Steeply's one planted byline: the accountant whose Jarvik IX Exterior Artificial Heart lived in her purse until Poor Tony snatched it. A prosthesis-dependent life the public can't read correctly — her literal cry for her stolen heart gets heard as figurative, and she dies of the misreading, collapsing "onto her empty chest." Her restenosis is also Gertraude Marathe's disease, wiring this grotesque straight into the A.F.R. serial's prosthetic-heart motive.

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