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"Strangely, these days I use it more to determine if someone has no heartbeat rather than if they do," she tells me.

You know she’s the central character because she’s the one who gets all the flashbacks, rendered in the customary sepia tones, each introduced by a sort of heartbeat motif on the soundtrack.

He swallowed his grief, took a breath and tried again, the thought of his community losing its heartbeat nearly too much to bear.

The panic manifested as "a tremendous sense of overwhelming dread", he says, accompanied by sudden shortness of breath and a racing heartbeat.

His eyes are desperately scanning as his heartbeat rises further.