Word: titanium
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...false eye resembling a giant contact lens. Doctors then re-created an upper eyelid using cartilage from the back of an ear and a lower eyelid with skin from the forehead. Next, doctors exposed the remaining parts of Kadriu's cheek area and screwed in a set of titanium plates. The missing midface soft tissue and skin were replaced with a graft. Finally, a titanium nasal bone was fixed to Kadriu's face--a foundation for a new nose. Fortunately, the nasal passages and linings were still present in residual form and worked normally after the operation...
...lovers leaving lovers say, By the time you read this, I'll be gone. Or possibly I won't. Given the way life is being prolonged these days, I--with my pig's liver, titanium hips and knees, artificial heart, transplanted kidney and reconstructed DNA--could write this letter in my century and pick it up in yours. ("Dear Me"--the perfect address for a solipsistic time.) No thanks. It is enough to be able to send these words across the abyss of years to tell something of who we are. We are members of a narrative species...