I looked like a monster after a car accident burned off my face... but a pioneering face transplant gave me my life back. See what I look like now

Joseph DiMeo remembers hopping into the car and blinking back sleep. Then he woke up in a hospital, three and a half months later, with 80 percent burns.


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