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Print   • - A A A +  His parents remember three-and-a-half-year-
old Jack Corbo as a fighter, who never had a fighting chance.
 Jack was a twin, born premature. He developed an infection
shortly after birth that damaged his heart.  And while he
received his first transplant quickly, the replacement heart was
bad, too. The donor heart came from another premature infant who
had been beaten to death, his ribs crushed. Repeated attempts at
CPR had failed. But doctors flew that heart across the country
from southern New Mexico to the Twin Cities and they implanted
it in Jack.   His parents remember the cautious approach after
that first transplant. They remember the concern of the medical
staff who talked about how Jack's new heart was "a little
stiff...not squeezing as well as it should be." His father
remembers being told it was "probably because it's been in a
bucket of ice for 4-5 hours