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It is Monday, May the 12th, 2008.

Around 2.30 in the afternoon. In the mountains of the Sichuan province of China, about an hour and a half's drive from

the city of Chengdu, the sky is threatening rain.

Dark clouds build to a smudgy, low canopy.

The atmosphere is thick and heavy. A storm is brewing.

Beneath the gathering gloom, a rural village stands amongst the vastness of nature.

On any normal day, this small settlement in Wanchuan County has a steady, peaceful rhythm.

The ambient rush of its central river underscores the songs of a thousand tropical birds, from the core core of the golden pheasant to the intricate trilling of the Chinese ruby throat.

Over this calming orchestra, the sounds of village life serve as grace notes, mere additions

to the glorious wilderness. It's a place surrounded on all sides by emerald mountains, nestled

in plant life at ease with itself. Today, however, the scene could not be more different,

and not just because of the ominous clouds overhead.

The village lies in ruins. Roads ripped open, power lines twisted and torn, the earth itself ruptured under buildings reduced to rubble.

And underneath that rubble, lying trapped, crushed under a mountain of concrete

brick and splintered wood, his 27-year-old Mayan Sebarg.

When I woke up, I was in a very dark place because all of the roof like fell on us

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