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Disfigured Vermont Woman Receives Face Transplant

A Vermont mom, injured by a lye attack that left her disfigured and legally blind, has received a face transplant at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Carmen Blandin Tarleton, a registered nurse and mother of two from Thetford, Vt., was injured in 2007 when her estranged husband broke into her home, attacked her with a baseball bat and doused her with industrial strength lye. More than 80 percent of Tarleton's body was burned in the attack and she was placed in a medically induced...Full Story
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