Until I watched something on CNN . . . yesterday one of the reporters was reporting on an 11-year-old girl trapped in the rubble in Haiti and how he was holding her hand because she hurt so badly.
Then today, I see an update. They got her out. But after she got to the makeshift hospital she died. Her last words were "Maman, ne me laisse pas mourir." (Mother, don't let me die).
Christ, this is so awful. I just can't watch it any more -- the thought of it is just too overwhelming. But watching anything else seems like a betrayal. Just having a TV and a flush toilet and running water seems like a travesty when such horror is occurring just a four-hour plane ride away. So I'm just going to stop watching. Or I'm going to have to start crying.
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