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CHILEAN MINERS' KIDS

Adam Patterson is an amazing Irish photojournalist without whom we never would have made this. Over the past couple of weeks he's been at the site of the Chilean miners' rescue and shot these portraits of the miners' young relatives.

If you're such an icy-hearted vampire that you didn't well-up like at the end of The Karate Kid when you saw the miners lifted one-by-one from their dark subterranean purgatory; if you didn't see their survival as a moving example of discipline, faith, love, and the victory of the human spirit like the end of The Karate Kid II, then just look at these pictures. Each of them is like a human version of The Cute Show crossed with, I don't know, the part in Steel Magnolias where Julia Roberts dies--just try imagining them running up and squeezing their tiny arms around their freed fathers, grandfathers, uncles, or cousins without collapsing in tears.

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[caption id="attachment_20412" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Bastian Gallardo (Mario Gomez's grandson)"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20413" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Marion Gallardo (Mario Gomez's granddaughter)"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20414" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Byron Avalos (Florencio Avalos' son)"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20416" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Paloma Benitez (Jose Ojeda's cousin)"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20417" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Javier Gallegullos (Mario Gomez's grandson)"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20418" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Luis Gallegullos (Mario Gomez's grandson)"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20419" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="Vicente (Jose Ojeda's adopted grandson)"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20420" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Martina (from the Avalos family)"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20421" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Lissett Gallardo (Mario Gomez's granddaughter)"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20422" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Arlen Yanez (Claudio Yanez's daughter)"]

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We asked Adam some questions about the mood on the site over the last few weeks, but all we got so far is this message:

Internet and phones have been down here at the mine as 2,200 journalists have raped the network.

We take that to mean that Adam will be sending us the answers to our questions very shortly. So, keep your eye out for more from Adam, (maybe).

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