Haitian novelist Edwidge Danticat was on a cross country flight when a woman named Donna, sitting a few rows behind her, suffered a heart attack. While a physician on board attended to her and advised the pilot to make an emergency landing in Salt Lake City, other passengers acted in concert to respond to the crisis. They abandoned seats to make room to…
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