the paper he had written: “There is a man on the way there whom I have sent,” and he added, “Tell me what you want,” like the words of one of those supernatural beings who appear in fairy tales in moments of greatest trouble. So Nando, on the other side of the paper, wrote that famous response, which was soon published in the media all around the world: “I come from a plane that crashed in the mountains. I am Uruguayan. We have been walking for ten days. I have a wounded friend up there. There are fourteen injured people still in the plane. We have to get out of here quickly and we don’t know
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