A book for Jasmine

AMBOY - As a matter of course, 6-year-old Jasmine asks new friends whether they want to touch her heart. The doe-eyed girl's question is literal - she wants people to feel her tiny miracle beating. It's unfair to say the rural Amboy girl suffers from DiGeorge syndrome, a genetic deletion that caused her to be born with half a heart. She taunts her younger brother and baby sister in great-grandma's backyard pool. She pedals a bike, leaving a trail of dust along the gravel road. She goes to public school, and goes to church. Jasmine Stewart does all the things all first-graders do, but her tiny ticker quickly tires. She has gone through more open-heart surgeries than birthdays - and she needs quick stops to catch her breath. One foot is pigeo