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Caregiver Shemere Perry and her daughter, as she awaits a heart transplant.

The Angel in Need of a Heart

For nearly a decade, single mom and companion caregiver Shemere Perry has tended to others, many among whose body’s last breaths were imminent. Beyond compassion, it takes a specific form of courage to remain at the bedside of the dying. Shemere knows this walk toward the finality of life intimately. She, too, is at risk