For Victim of Ghastly Crime, a New Face, a New Beginning New York Times After 15 hours of transplant surgery, Ms. Tarleton, 45, emerged from the operating room with what looked to her mother, Joan VanNorden, like a puffy, surreal mask. At first she wanted to faint as she stared at the new face, smooth and freckled ... The face of a new beginning for a ghastly crime's victim |