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Connie Culp still thinks about how she used to look, she says

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted May 8, 2009 10:06 AM CDT

(Newser) – The woman who had the nation's first face transplant still thinks about how she looked before her husband shot her in a failed murder-suicide attempt in 2004—but she forgives him, she said in an interview today with Good Morning America. It was the smell... Read full story »

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