One in 100 people have congenital heart disease, but knowing the warning signs can save your life. One brave second-grade girl in Goochland knows that first-hand, after needing surprise heart surgery.

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Each of them was a home I moved into with an open heart. I didn’t leave with furniture ... I’m still here,” even while carrying in your chest the ruins of old embraces.

Within three weeks of her surprise diagnosis, the little girl was in a hospital operating room undergoing open-chest heart surgery.

D.C., for open-chest heart surgery. “My little girl was on bypass. They stopped her heart, and her heart wasn’t beating for almost six hours while they were doing the procedure,” Pete ...