Question: I was reading about the partial face transplant that was just done in France, and I had a sudden flash to a movie I saw when I was a kid. It was about a woman who was disfigured in an accident and everyone said there was nothing they could do except this one surgeon. The thing I remember most was a shot of her mouth sewed shut — everyone says I'm imagining it, but I'm sure it was a movie.Answer: It probably says something about me that almost everything makes me think of some movie or other, but apparently I'm not the only one. The movie you're remembering (no, you didn't imagine it) is the 1984 TV movie Why Me?, based on the real experiences of Air Force nurse Leola Mae Harmon (played by Glynnis O'Connor) and Dr. James Stallings (
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