19-Year-Old Survives Being Frozen but is 'Disappointed'

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19-Year-Old Survives Being Frozen but is 'Disappointed'

In late December of 1980, something of a miracle occurred in Lengby, MN. A man named Wally Nelson awoke to find the body of a 19-year-old girl named Jean Hilliard frozen "solid as a log" on his doorstep, where she had apparently sat for six full hours outdoors in 22 below Fahrenheit temperatures. He brought her to the hospital, where, to everyone's disbelief she was revived, ...

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