Schneily’s long road leads to a new leg

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How can you not smile when you see this baby's face?

Four-year-old injured during Haiti's huge earthquake seeks a prosthetic limb.



"DESCHAPELLES, Haiti -- Darline Similien climbs off the back of a motorcycle in the blazing morning sun and sweeps her youngest son, Schneily, into her arms, mindful of the 4-year-old's missing leg.

She sees visitors with cameras and pauses, shy about her appearance after a 5 1/2-hour road trip by bus and by bike. But Schneily just hugs her tighter.

"You're not ugly mama," the brown-eyed boy with a headful of braids says in lyrical Creole."You look nice, Mama."

It's been only four days since Darline has seen Schneily and his father, Ducarmel, but for the family on a desperate quest for a prosthetic limb to replace the boy's left leg, crushed in the earthquake, everything has changed..."

http://haitiamputees.msnbc.msn.com/

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1. Self kicking

There are good things happening in this world.

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2. What a face! How beautiful. n/t