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 " The Book That Almost Wasn ' t ": An Interview witH Mitchell Fink 
 by Patricia Dove and Elaine Paliatsas - Haughey 
 Glassworks Magazine ( GM ) : Change of Heart speaks to the possibility that all of us , even the most hardened , might be able to change our views about racism . How does this story attempt to convey the message of promoting acceptance across races , and what motivated you in to write it ? 
 Mitchell Fink ( MF ) : My first interest as a journalist is always the story . Is it a compelling story , and will others relate to it ? That ' s always the test . In the case of Robert Dunn , I felt that if he could change his long - held views , and suddenly become more tolerant of whites , then perhaps there was a chance that others might become more tolerant of any race not their own . 
 ​ GM : Racism has seemingly worsened over time . George Zimmerman , the riots in Ferguson and the list goes on . Every time a police officer shoots someone , the first thing considered is the race of the cop and the race of person . If the cop is white and the person is black it no longer matters what the person did to get shot , it matters about the race and the chaos begins all over again . What do you believe society can do to combat this ? 
 MF : Accountability would be a good place to start . We live in a different world today . Everyone is watching . Brutality on the part of law enforcement will be caught on camera for all to see . The kid in a hooded sweatshirt robbing a convenience store will be caught on camera for all to see . Both have to be accountable . The absentee father has to be accountable . The drug dealer in the projects . The gangs . The gun owner . The gun manufacturer . The elected official . As a law - abiding citizen , I condemn them all , black and white . And if Robert Dunn were still here , I believe he ' d say the exact same thing . 
 We live in a different world today . Everyone is watching . Brutality on the part of law enforcement will be caught on camera for all to see . The kid in a hooded sweatshirt robbing a convenience store will be caught on camera for all to see . Both have to be accountable . ​ 
 GM : You write that Dunn developed a fear after finding out his donor was a white woman . How do you think this fear is connected to the current civil rights renaissance occurring across the country ? 
 MF : I don ' t think there ' s necessarily a civil rights renaissance occurring across the country . In many ways the issue has never gone away . His fear was simply that the donor ' s family would regard him with the same kind of contempt other whites showed him throughout his childhood . His fear was completely understandable given how he was treated by whites in the 1960 s . 
 ​ GM : What is it about Robert ' s personal story that sparks discussions about race in a time of volatile police brutality and # BlackLivesMatter ? 
 MF : If Robert Dunn , one of the most opinionated , belligerent and angry people I have ever known , can change , anyone is capable of changing . This was a man who was about to throw a Molotov cocktail at a wooden police shack in Nassau County , Long island . Robert and his cousin hid one night in a nearby brush making these crude homemade grenades that would explode on impact . They weren ' t trying to kill anyone . They just wanted to destroy the shack because of what it represented . As they were preparing their crude explosive devices , two cops walking nearby heard them . The cops mistakenly thought they were two homosexuals about to have sex , and chased them away . If the cops hadn ' t happened upon them , they definitely would have blown up the shack . This was also the same man who just a few short years later cried his eyes out at the kindness and love shown to him by the donor ' s white family . If that ' s not change , I don ' t know what is . 
 GM : You became like a brother to Robert Dunn and have said that even after his death you have stayed close with his and Dorothy ' s families . From that vantage point , what do you think they would have to say about current events like those in Ferguson and Baltimore ? 
 MF : Robert Dunn would be just as angry today as he was back then . He would be protesting in Ferguson and in Baltimore . Finding a cure for injustice , any injustice , against anyone , was always what mattered most to him . I don ' t think he would have approved of the Ferguson riots . He would have understood the motivation behind the riots , but because he had become a trusted attorney in the black community , I feel he might he might have gone there as a voice of reason . I haven ' t asked Dorothy ' s family what they thought of Ferguson or Baltimore . It certainly couldn ' t have made them happy . They are wonderful , thoughtful , loving people , and colorblind when it comes to race . 
 GM : Do you believe that this story of Dunn and Moore may show people the way towards racial healing ? 
 ​ MF : I realize this may sound like an author only wanting to spin a good story , but Robert was so deeply moved by his donor ' s background and story . Once Robert learned how difficult Dorothy ' s life had been , he felt this overwhelming emotional need to protect her . He began a dialogue with her oldest child , mentoring him and advising him as though he were his . This also filled a need in Robert , although for too short a time , to experience himself as a father . So in the process of protecting Dorothy , and her heart , he began falling in love with her . Although that was impossible in a physical sense , emotionally he was in love . So much so , in fact , that during his last days , when he was faced with the life - saving choice of a mechanical heart transplant followed by another human heart transplant , he refused . He died protecting Dorothy Moore , right up to the end . He was just turning 50 , but it was no longer necessary for him to stick around . He was healed . 
 GM : In the introduction to your book you wrote " Robert ' s life was not the selfless act of a pre - teen , but rather the powerful , complex and racially charged set of circumstances that preceded his death . Change of Heart is the story of those circumstances and how one man ' s decision to confront his darkest fears and twisted beliefs made it possible for him to find the most unique kind of unconditional love , a love that could only be experienced from the inside out . " What do you believe or hope that people take away from this story ? What do you wish the moral to be ? 
 MF : The " selfless act " I mention had to do with Robert as a young boy running into a burning building and saving a few young children who were trapped by themselves with no adult around . Someone who spoke at his funeral described the scene as " the defining moment " of Robert ' s life . And I maintain that the real defining moment of his life was the true change of heart he experienced in the last year of his life . What I hope people take away from this story is this : Our ethnicity and skin color may be different . We come from different countries , different backgrounds , and different stations in life . We ' re rich , poor , broken , aggressive , passive , lucky and unlucky . But our hearts , it turns out , are interchangeable .