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Some parents were hesitant about the project, but most visit the site once a day, sometimes more, says Koh Suk, head of an association of the bereaved, who lost twin girls in the blaze. When the memorial opened last year, Koh still hadn't accepted that his daughters were dead. "Now I believe they are alive and growing in this cyberworld. It has become a source of consolation...
...Prime Number 80 percent of the 300 or so victims of a horrific fireworks blaze in Lima, Peru may be unidentifiable, according to estimates by officials...
...mothers? Fathers? Where are the old marrieds? Where are the children, "adjudged the leastwise of the land"? Where are the riots? Where are the prophets? Where is the sound "that we are each other's harvest"? I see them in her poems that breathe women in a blaze of upsweeps and backyards and ballads, in her children dancing between urine and violets, in her singing to us between the sleeping and the waking. And as she entered into our 21st century bloodstream, paddling a river of risks, she became the color of bells, set sail on the wind and sailed...
...flames engulfed the building, the city was lighted by the eerie spectacle, the grand stairway acting like a flume to build the heat. Frightened residents watched into the night until the blaze was extinguished by a violent rainstorm. Next morning the White House was a blackened sandstone shell--but a legend was born...
...turns out, was on fire, burning along the throttle line. It could have exploded and killed her. Instead, some Good Samaritan called the fire department, the two guys with the blanket put out the blaze, and the Datsun was saved to drive another day. It took Hyde a while to understand that she too had been saved. "I finally realized these two guys could have died," she says. "I could have died. I turned around to thank them--and they weren't there. For the next few months, I walked around with this huge sense of regret. But without realizing...