I always wondered why people live in an area where they know a hurricane or earthquake can come at any time. Why would you stay somewhere, knoiwng that someday, you will have to be hit by nature's fury? That you'll have to rebuild, only to rebuild all over again a year or two years from the day everything seems normal again. I wonder what the day after a storm or an earthquake feels like. Is it like this? Does everything seem calm and the world seem OK again? Or does the sky look different? Is it possible to pick yourself up again and again to repair without feeling like you just want to live in the rubble?

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