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Saving Fish from Drowning - Heal Burma

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SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING<br />

actly what the tape captured. Viewer discretion is advised. Some of<br />

the scenes are disturbing and not suitable for children....”<br />

Once the tape had been shown, Roxanne ran to retrieve her back­<br />

pack. “It’s gone! It’s gone!” she shouted, loud enough to catch Black<br />

Spot’s attention. She stood there with her camcorder, its cartridge<br />

holder open and empty. Black Spot walked over to hear what was be­<br />

ing discussed.<br />

The visitors were chattering wildly. With the bridge down, there<br />

was no way the reporter could have sneaked in and stolen the tape.<br />

And no one in this camp could have taken it to the local post office<br />

to mail to GNN. “Maybe a bird really did find the tape,” Bennie said.<br />

“Crows are known to take all kinds of things to line their nests. How<br />

else would you explain it?”<br />

Black Spot held his arms outstretched. “It is miracle,” he said.<br />

My friends considered the possibility. The release of their souls<br />

only moments earlier had opened them to the mysterious and<br />

inexplicable.<br />

“However it got to them,” Roxanne said, “I’m worried about<br />

where the tape leaves off. Rupert was delirious, Moff was out of his<br />

mind—”<br />

“I don’t think it shows that at all,” Moff said, careful not to look<br />

at his son. “You can tell in the tape that I was exhausted.”<br />

The group analyzed whether it might look to outside viewers else­<br />

where that everyone had died. Would the search still go on in Ran­<br />

goon? They hoped not. Would searchers come to the jungle, to the<br />

mountains around the lake?<br />

“There’s a lot of jungle,” Heidi said, and then added: “But maybe<br />

another miracle will happen.”<br />

A LTHOUGH B LACK S POT knew how the tape had made its way to<br />

Mandalay, he still believed it was a miracle. How else would Harry<br />

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