importance of life when you see the face of death in front of you. And at that time you feel the

importance oflife and of the people in your life.

This experience I had when I was nineteen years old. The important thing for me at that

time was that I had just gotten married three weeks ago. On the day of the Earthquake my family

was returning from India and my husband and I were going to drop them off at the airport. After

we dropped them offwe returned to my parents home in Ahmedabad, India, to lock it up because

no one else was going to live there. The house itself is three levels tall. My husband and I went to

the top floor to sleep and my in-laws slept on the ground level. The streets in India are like allies.

My house is farthest inside with houses on both sides.

It was around half past seven that my mother-in-law came upstairs to wake us up. After

fifteen minutes she came back upstairs to wake us up again because we had not yet gotten up.

Once she left several minutes had passed and we started to hear some noise coming from outside.

First my husband thought that it was an airplane o

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