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'It's Not a Baby Doll -- It's Alive'
The Washington Post ^ | Feb 7, 2008 | Peter Whoriskey

Posted on 02/07/2008 5:53:54 AM PST by RDTF

CASTALIAN SPRINGS, Tenn., Feb. 6 -- The searchers had already gone over the field once.

It seemed unlikely that anything else would turn up. It was dark and rainy, and amid the awesome wreckage left by the tornado that had just passed here they had already found three dead. Some of the bodies had been flung hundreds of feet from their homes, landing in tangles of branches and across the roadway.

Then they stumbled upon Kyson.

The 11-month-old, dressed in a T-shirt and diaper, was lying as silently as any piece of debris in a field of tall grass about 100 yards from the now-leveled duplex where he once lived. He was face down in the mud, covered in bits of grass like many of those who had been cast about by the dozens of tornadoes that had careened across the South.

"It's not a baby doll -- it's alive," called out David Harmon, 31, an emergency worker from nearby Wilson County. He had first thought the boy was made of plastic.

Kyson, to the surprise of rescuers, had survived being tossed by winds that had not only flattened the brick post office next door but had killed his 23-year-old mother, throwing her several yards in the opposite direction, into some fallen trees.

"The baby was just shivering like this," said Keith Douglas, interim director of emergency medical services for Sumner County, who was on the scene, putting his fists to his chest, pressing his elbows to his sides. "He was cold and scared, and he had this blank look in his eyes."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: miracle; supertuesday; tornado; twister
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To: chuckles

you are an ignorant fool. Your blinded self righteous behavior couldn’t even let you apologize for ruining this thread. I have no interest in communicating with you.


41 posted on 02/08/2008 5:12:32 AM PST by RDTF
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To: RDTF
But you couldn’t resist?
42 posted on 02/08/2008 7:18:26 AM PST by chuckles
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To: chuckles
Just as an off topic, I don't believe angels are female or baby cherubs. I don't know why pictures show angels as soft feminine characters.

And I don't believe they are only caucasian or blonde either, but thats my mini rant.

43 posted on 02/13/2008 11:43:26 AM PST by neither-nor
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