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Saving Fish from Drowning - Heal Burma

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•17 •<br />

THE APPEARANCE<br />

OF MIRACLES<br />

For the past few days, my friends in the jungle had taken turns<br />

pedaling the bicycle to keep the car batteries charged. Night and<br />

day, they watched the news on the various satellite channels: the<br />

BBC, CNN, Star out of Hong Kong, TV Myanmar International,<br />

and what they believed to be the most informative, Global News<br />

Network.<br />

For some reason, tonight TV Myanmar was no longer showing<br />

Harry’s reports <strong>from</strong> Bagan and Mandalay, which used to repeat<br />

every other hour. My friends had enjoyed tuning in to those seg­<br />

ments when there was nothing new on the other international chan­<br />

nels, and having watched them so many times, they could recite the<br />

words before they came out of Harry’s mouth: “The aching splen­<br />

dor . . .” When Harry turned to the camera and said those words, my<br />

friends always burst into laughter. Their antics had annoyed Mar­

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