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(UNDATED) The hole in Vasco Sylvester's heart isn't there anymore. In a three-hour operation on June 10, surgeons at Hope Children's Hospital outside Chicago, using a piece of white Gore-Tex, patched the quarter-size hole that had been there since Vasco was born. The doc...