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Be Not Afraid Readinessand lifeless only a few feet away. My heart sank: Dad hadalways been so strong and comforting – always there forus.Looking back at her mother, Shirley struggled to “allowher to go,” as she later put it.I was deeply torn. Part of me wanted to cry out, “Mom,live! Please live!” But another part of me wished shecould be released from her agony immediately. And soI told her it was all right to go, and promised her thatwe would meet again someday. <strong>The</strong>n I turned and triedto comfort my sister Mary, who was lying nearby andseemed near death. When I looked back at Mom, I sawthat she had just passed away. I knelt beside her for along time, numbed by grief.Aside from Aaron and Katie, everyone on the bussurvived, but the next days were still a nightmare.Housed in a government hospital in Tegucigalpa,Shirley and her sisters underwent one battery of testsand surgeries after another. Medications providedrelief from pain, but nothing could erase the imagesthat still kept them awake at night: they seemedseared onto their brains. Nothing, that is, except the

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