Saving Fish from Drowning - Heal Burma

SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING
reporter and said, her stony smile still affixed, “To be honest, I was
more concerned we’d get stuck if they shut down the airports.” Her
response—plus that gritted smile meant for her husband—was re­
played each hour, making it seem to millions of people that she was
a coldhearted bitch.
In Mayville, the citizens held a candlelight vigil and bake sale for
Wyatt’s family. They raised funds for Mrs. Fletcher, and the deputy
sheriff she was dating, to go to Burma to search for her only son. The
lesson plan in elementary schools across the country now included a
geography lesson on where Burma was located in the world, and that
lesson was broadcast nationally as well, since another poll had revealed
than ninety-six percent of Americans had no idea where either Myan­
mar or Burma was. In San Francisco, Mary Ellen Brookhyser Feingold
Fong was in touch with the mayor and “the three Georges”—one of
them a political bigwig with connections to the State Department,
another a filmmaker, and the third a billionaire humanitarian with a
private jet. The staff of The Fido Files selected the very best of their
shows to rerun, including a popular segment on training search-and­
rescue dogs using scent detection and trailing, coupled with simple
techniques ordinary pet owners could use to teach their own couch-
potato dogs—boxer, beagle, or bichon frise, it didn’t matter what
breed—to sniff out a child playing hide-and-seek. Even before the
end of that broadcast day, plans had been made to fly to Burma via
private jet the following people: Mary Ellen Brookhyser Feingold
Fong; Mrs. Dorothea Fletcher and her deputy boyfriend, Gustav Lar­
sen; and Saskia Hawley of Golden Gate Search-and-Rescue Dogs, a
former gal pal of Harry’s.
On the plane, Saskia Hawley reflected on the past she had once
shared with Harry Bailley. She still felt a fondness for him. What did
he feel for her? Like all his former lovers, she was petite, thin, and, as
Harry had once put it, “emotionally demanding.” “Cute” was also
how Harry described her, a term she despised since it connoted
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