In the late 1880s, an unidentified young woman was pulled from the River Seine in Paris. A pathologist at the morgue was so struck by her peaceful expression that he made a plaster death mask of her face. The mask became a fashionable decoration in Parisian homes for decades. Then in 1958, when a Norwegian toymaker was asked to create the first CPR training mannequin, he used her face as the model. She became Resusci Anne, the most kissed face in history, pressed to the lips of hundreds of millions of people learning to save lives.

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