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I remember an old documentary in which a person, after an heart transplant, had little changes in personality.
If my memory don't fool me, the donor was a surfer and the recipient started like greeting or something like him.
There is some limited evidence to suggest that heart transplants can transfer aspects of the donors' personality and possibly even traumatic memories over to the recipient (see here ). There are also a lot of anecdotes that effect (eg this or the one you mentioned). I actually even remember once hearing a story of a woman who claimed she became lesbian after a heart transplant.