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Your heart is closer to the middle than you think

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People dramatically clutch the far left side of their chest during pledges, completely missing the target. The organ actually sits right in the middle, merely tilting its larger pumping ventricle slightly off to the left side.

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Your heart is closer to the middle than you think
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