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Lifebanc, the organ procurement organization for the region, keeps information about donors and recipients confidential, even from one another. If one side writes a letter to make contact with the other, Lifebanc will deliver it. The other side can choose whether to respond. Once they establish a connection, both must agree to meet.
該地區(qū)的器官采購組織Lifebanc對捐贈者和受贈者的信息保密，甚至捐贈雙方互相保密。如果一方寫信與另一方取得聯(lián)系，Lifebanc會把它送達(dá)。對方可以選擇是否回應(yīng)。一旦他們建立了聯(lián)系，雙方必須都同意才能見面。
Through their letters, the Stubblefields learned that Katie had the face of Adrea Schneider and that her grandmother, Sandra Bennington, was eager to meet them. On a Sunday morning in January, Katie and her parents met Sandra for the first time. Sandra was nervous, which she told herself was silly. She arrived, pulling the tank of oxygen she needs for her pulmonary disease, and walked slowly into the living room where Katie waited alone on the sofa. Katie felt nervous too. She had put on a new dress and wore stylish sunglasses covering her eyes, which still looked damaged.
從他們的信中，斯圖布爾菲爾德夫婦得知，凱蒂長著阿德里亞·施奈德的臉，她的祖母桑德拉·本寧頓也很想見見他們。在1月份某個星期天早上，凱蒂和父母第一次見到桑德拉。桑德拉感到很緊張，她告訴自己這很愚蠢。她來了，拖著她肺部疾病需要的氧氣罐，慢慢地走進(jìn)客廳，那里有個人正在沙發(fā)上等她。凱蒂也感到緊張。她穿了一件新衣服，戴了一副時髦的太陽鏡，遮住了眼睛，因為她的眼睛看起來仍然很糟糕。
Sandra had already seen a photo of Katie, taken at the moment she was wheeled out of the transplant surgery, when she looked a lot more like Adrea. The photo triggered something in Sandra. Thinking about Katie and her recovery helped her get over her grief.
桑德拉已經(jīng)看過凱蒂的照片，那是在她被推出移植手術(shù)室時拍的，當(dāng)時她看起來更像阿德里亞。這張照片引起了桑德拉的注意，而想到凱蒂和她的康復(fù)幫助桑德拉克服了悲痛。
Face transplant recipients undergo a metamorphosis as they heal and the face adapts to their facial structure. The new face becomes a matrix, as Papay put it, not one or the other but a composite. Katie no longer looked like Adrea.
面部移植接受者在痊愈的過程中會經(jīng)歷變形，面部結(jié)構(gòu)也會隨之改變。新面孔變成了帕佩伊所謂的“矩陣”，即不是凱蒂的臉，也不是阿德里亞的臉，而是她們的混合體。凱蒂看起來不再像阿德里亞了。
