the real hero of canton

[rm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/opinion/22gup.html

Also be sure to enlarge the letters photographed with the story -- they aren't quoted in the piece and are amazing to read:

We are a family of five, just as poor as can be. We buried two babies in the last four years.

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::sob::

That's beautiful.