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    Default Finally,A Positive Story Concerning The Tsunami.

    One of woman's cardinal rule: Body parts can be fake,everything else has to be real.

    一个女人的枢机规则:肢体可以伪造,一切必须真实.

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    Default Re: Finally,A Positive Story Concerning The Tsunami.

    awww thats sweet! thanks for posting


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    Default Re: Finally,A Positive Story Concerning The Tsunami.

    Quote Originally Posted by HoneyHITZ
    awww thats sweet! thanks for posting
    You're welcome!!!
    One of woman's cardinal rule: Body parts can be fake,everything else has to be real.

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    Default Re: Finally,A Positive Story Concerning The Tsunami.

    after all that saddness, its nice to hear something good for once


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    Default Re: Finally,A Positive Story Concerning The Tsunami.

    I totally agree.
    One of woman's cardinal rule: Body parts can be fake,everything else has to be real.

    一个女人的枢机规则:肢体可以伪造,一切必须真实.

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    Default Re: Finally,A Positive Story Concerning The Tsunami.

    For those who don't want to follow the link...OTB, instead of just posting links, post the story along with it. I hate clicking links sometimes.

    CHINNAKALAPET, India -- "Run away!" her husband screamed from a rooftop after he spotted the colossal waves. It was a simple command that smothered Sangeeta in a nightmarish dilemma: She had three sons, but just two arms. She grabbed the two youngest and ran -- reasoning that 7-year-old Dinakaran, the oldest, had the best chance of outrunning the giant waves.

    When the boy didn't follow, Sangeeta was crushed by grief, believing she would never see him again. The family dog made sure she did.

    Dinakaran had not followed her but ran instead to the safest place he knew -- the family's small, concrete-walled hut just 40 yards from shore.

    While water lapped at Sangeeta's heels as she rushed up the hill, the scruffy yellow dog named Selvakumar ducked into the hut after the boy. Nipping and nudging, he did everything in his canine power to get the boy up the hill.

    Sangeeta, who like many south Indians only uses one name, had no idea of the drama unfolding below. Once she had crossed the main road to safety she collapsed in tears, screaming over the loss of her Dinakaran.

    "I had heard from others that the wall of my house had collapsed, I felt sure that my child had died," the 24-year-old mother said.

    Selvakumar looks pretty much like every other mongrel in the village. He hardly ever barks and lets the three boys climb on him and pull his tail without protest. At night, he joins the rest of the family and sleeps among them, no matter how many times they throw him out.

    Most days, the dog escorts Dinakaran to and from school, spending the rest of the day playing with the other two boys, or begging for food.

    Sangeeta's brother-in-law gave her the puppy, after the birth of her second son. When a brother-in-law died in an accident two years ago, the gave the dog his name.

    Sangeeta's family had always lived along the coast, just north of Pondicherry, a former French colony, on the southeast coast of India.

    The morning of Dec. 26 began like most others, with sunny skies and a cool breeze. Sangeeta's husband, R. Ramakrishnan, had just returned from the sea with a boat full of fish. From their home, the view of the ocean was obstructed by a two-story community center. So when they heard a strange noise coming from the sea, Sangeeta's husband went to investigate.

    When Ramakrishnan saw the waves, he ran to the roof of the center and shouted down to Sangeeta to flee. That's when she made her agonizing choice.

    "He is somewhat older than the other two. I knew he would be able to run, so I grabbed the other two," Sangeeta explained.

    Dinakaran credits the dog with saving his life.

    "That dog grabbed me by the collar of my shirt," the boy said from under some trees at Pondicherry University, where the family waits for relief aid. "He dragged me out."

    Sangeeta said she wept with joy when she saw her son walking up to her, with Selvakumar by his side.

    The Tamils of south India believe that talking about the death of a living person can make it so, so Sangeeta didn't want to speak of her decision or speculate how she would have felt had her son not survived. She did say that she believes some special spirit, perhaps her brother-in-law's, resides in the young yellow dog.

    "That dog is my God," said Sangeeta -- with Dinakaran sitting on the ground at her feet. Selvakumar slept on the warm asphalt next to him.

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    Default Re: Finally,A Positive Story Concerning The Tsunami.

    Its nice to hear some good for once amongest all the sad news.

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    Default Re: Finally,A Positive Story Concerning The Tsunami.

    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess
    instead of just posting links, post the story along with it.
    When you reposted it, you left out this bit from right at the end:

    "Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed."

    I know it is nitpicky, my apologies...but in case anyone should care, it is not a copyright infringement to post the link but it is to post the text, and doing so without acknowledging the source (or author, when given) does not help, makes it worse if anything. And, at least in principle, I believe that it is possible to get the owners of the site on which you repost copyrighted material in trouble, not just yourself.

    And if you are thinking that any legal consequences are very unlikely, I am sure you are right (though I am aware of at least one such situation in which there was a law suit...not sure how it was settled), and if you are wondering if I have ever done anything similar myself, I have.

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    This very body is the Body of the Buddha."
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    Quote Originally Posted by onlythebest
    I've heard one other postitive story re: the tsunaimi. A couple days ago on a radio talk show, a ten-year-old British girl was mentioned. A week or two before she went on vacation with her mother & father, her science/geology class covered tsunaimis, and when the ocean rapidly started rapidly receding, she recognized it as indicating a disaster. Her parents believed her, and the whole family started running for higher ground and yelling. The people around them started running fro higher ground as well. Something on the order of over 200 people who avoided possibly losing their lives because of this little girl remembering what she learned in school. This information has not been vetted, and as stated, I heard it on a radio talk show. But a nice bit of news, and I have no reason to doubt it actually happened.


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    aww, that is so sweet! I love animals!

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