Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and a burden to someone, she called her doctor's office to learn her heart's exact location.
"Since you're a woman," the doctor said, "your heart is just below your left breast. Why do you ask?" She hung up without answering.
Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound, to her knee.
Poor mildred. Her heart was just below her left breast.
