if this doesn't make you believe*

i sure as shite don't know what will! this is a-MAZING



Girl's rescue 15 days after quake offers a rare moment of joy in devastated Haiti

By Dana Hedgpeth and Peter Slevin

Washington Post Staff Writers
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Fifteen days after an earthquake devastated this nation, a teenage girl was rescued from the rubble of her house -- weak and thirsty -- on a hillside in the capital.
Hundreds of Haitians shouted with joy Wednesday as rescuers pulled Darline Etienne from a jumble of concrete and steel, wrapped her in a gold foil emergency blanket and hurried her into an ambulance. She said she had been in the shower when her house collapsed. A spokesman for the French team that rescued her said, "We think she's been in there since the quake," and a cousin said Darline had been "under the trash since January 12." .......

video of the rescue at the wapo link above

*in the human spirit in general AND the strength and perseverance of the people of haiti in general

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