gigaom.com - 12/27/2008
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Exactly one year ago today I was overcome by what seemed like a case of bad heartburn, but what the medical professionals at UCSF would later diagnose as a heart attack. Within just a few minutes , my life changed irrevocably…and in hindsight, for the better.
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