Alan Zinda, 23, of Rosholt is pictured just prior to his December 2010 death in a car crash. / Contributed photos
ROSHOLT, WIS. — Bev Zinda couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
The soft, steady beats she heard in the chest of the man standing before her was so familiar yet so foreign. Familiar because it was a sound she had heard so many times before, in fact had heard when it still was inside her. It was the heart of her son, Alan.
Foreign, though, because Alan died three years ago in a car crash at the age of 23.
“When I heard that heartbeat, for me, my son had come home,” Bev Zinda said. “He was standing right there in my living room.”
How the heart came to be in her living room, ticking away in the chest of an Israeli man named Yitzahk Wolf, is a long and at times heart-wrenching story for Bev Zinda to tell. It begins on the night she and her husband, John, watched their son die on the side of a road.
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