http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2008/05/21/down-to-earth/ Canadian Edition Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:39:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2008/05/21/down-to-earth/#comment-26337 anon mouse Tue, 27 May 2008 23:57:57 +0000 http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2008/05/21/down-to-earth/#comment-26337 I like your comment about the human condition containing compassion deeper than the imaginary lines we draw between ourselves on maps. My girlfrinds aunt and uncle live in Mianyang and miraculously they survived the earthquake by sitting in a toilet in a PLA army barracks (dont ask me what they were doing there in the first place). They got rescued eventually. For many months they have not talked to my girlfriend, because she has a foreign boyfriend. Now, they have started talking to her again. My girlfriends father has also started talking to her again. I think that some things are more important than pride and belief in this life, and it is a shame that it takes an earthquake to make us realise this. I like your comment about the human condition containing compassion deeper than the imaginary lines we draw between ourselves on maps. My girlfrinds aunt and uncle live in Mianyang and miraculously they survived the earthquake by sitting in a toilet in a PLA army barracks (dont ask me what they were doing there in the first place). They got rescued eventually. For many months they have not talked to my girlfriend, because she has a foreign boyfriend. Now, they have started talking to her again. My girlfriends father has also started talking to her again. I think that some things are more important than pride and belief in this life, and it is a shame that it takes an earthquake to make us realise this.

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