Mildred was a 93-year-old woman and despondent over the recent death of her husband, Earl. She took out Earl's old army pistol and made the decision to shoot herself in the heart, since it was so badly broken in the first place. Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and burden to someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire exactly where the heart is on a woman. The doctor said, "Your heart is just below your left breast." Later that night Mildred was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to her knee. |