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These are poor people

You want to cringe, but these are very poor people and you eat what you can find in desperate times.


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Blog: When Two Worlds Collide
Date: February 12th 2006

When Two Worlds Collide

Today was special. But let me go back a bit, first. In November I was honored to meet Peter Gliechmann of Germany, a tall, robust and rough-cut man of his forties and an appetite to match. The near death story he shares of clinging to a taught cable in the tsunami catastrophe and barely surviving is a story no grandpa could tell his grandchildren with ... read more


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