Unpleasant as this is, it's worth pointing out that the superlawyer who bought the hands for her, Mark Holden, is almost certainly the same Mark Holden who sits on the board of directors for Americans For Prosperity and runs the public sector legal division for Koch Industries.

It's generous indeed for him to spend $200,000 on prosthetics for a stranger, but this story would be more heartwarming if he wasn't at the same time working to strip millions of people of their health insurance, which is what AFP is zealously trying to do.