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Ray Hartle - Veteran journalist, author, and heart-transplant survivor

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Ten years after receiving a donor heart at Cape Town’s Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, veteran journalist Ray Hartle marks the occasion with a deeply personal memoir. Memoir of a Fractured Heart traces the moments that made his heart race—and those that steadied it—while unpacking the physical and emotional realities of living with chronic illness and a transplant. In this Styleskoops lifestyle interview, Hartle reflects on life, loss, legacy and the second chance that changed everything.
2 Nov English South Africa Arts · Music

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