Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:39 PM Subject: diarios de ayacucho Yesterday we were talking with Alan, and the obstetrician-gynecologist Betty, helping them organize pregnancy files, when a nurse came running in, calling for the doctors. There was a birth in a little hamlet nearby. We jumped into the ambulance and rattled down the road ... here´s the continuation of that story¨; the ambulance is just a retro-fitted minibus, but it´s got a pretty powerful engine. We´re flying down the paved road, with two doctors, a nurse, and the father, who ran an hour to get help. Dr. Alan, who still is not quite sure what an anthropologist and an architect are doing there, asked - You´ve seen a birth before, right? And we looked at each other and said Well, in sex ed, we saw
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