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[Editor’s Note: The following story is taken direct and unedited from the journal of my longtime friend Segundo. After the earthquake in Haiti, he, along with several of his friends–all with medical and rescue training, spent 10 days volunteering north of Port au Prince. I debated asking Julie Schwietert to run this as a First Person Dispatch at Matador Change–as “people making a difference” is the central theme of that series. But the way these notes kept returning to the theme of “journey” made me publish them here. -DM]