Coming of Age | Rescued Chilean miners provide a good example

Submitted on October 28, 2010
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Karen Osborne
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It was every miner’s worst nightmare. Trapped more than 2,000 feet below Chile’s remote Atacama desert, cut off from the rest of the world by a tunnel collapse, 33 Chilean miners wondered if they would ever see daylight again. They survived on bites of tuna, toxic water from car radiators, and the hope that the people above hadn’t given up on them. For 17 interminable days, there was complete darkness.

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