"I want to ask him something," said the boy's sister, Mary Rose, 28, in Port-au-Prince, pointing to Chad Henne, Miami Dolphins quarterback. She smiled coyly. Everyone expected her to ask for a date.
She asked, instead of a tent.
Mr. Her looked surprised. "We can try," he said.
Celebrities and refugees are oil and water of this tropical city, which rarely mix outside of valet parking. The Haiti earthquake on January 12, has however repeatedly upset the usual hierarchy. And so it was on Monday that in a part of Miami Vice President Joseph r. Biden Jr. met with Haitian-American leaders to discuss Haiti's redevelopment. In another separated a celebrated babies named Jane were reunited with their parents while Haiti here at Notre Dame D ' Ha?ti Catholic Church in Little Haiti, technology brought together dazzle, needs and a family.
In two rooms linked by broadband, false tragedy became. When Amelise Jean-Baptiste and her son Exais Peterson saw half a dozen relatives in Haiti on a larger TV, was their travails and triumphs all had. Peterson, who seized the boy, called limelight.
"Stand up, let me look at you," his sister said. He puffed out his chest and smiled. She asked him to turn his head. His left ear still missing its lower LOBE; part of his Kind looked so ragged that gravel. But his family in Port-au-Prince looked happy.
Peter's recovery was marvellous.
Much of his face had been virtually absent when his neighbors him out of the rubble of his home in Port-au-Prince, four days after the earthquake.
Dr. Chad Perlyn, plastic surgeon, recalled that the lift boy's bandages at the University of Miami field hospital in Haiti and discover hundreds of maggots. "He lost most of his stomach and scalp," said Dr. Perlyn. "His whole body was infected."
Peterson and his mother flew out on a military flight and ended up at Miami children's Hospital, where Dr. Perlyn methods. Eleven measures later Peterson is learn English and lives with his mother in a hotel with the families of 18 other children who fled after the earthquake.
He told his relatives at home that he was satisfied. His mother said the same thing, and it took a little time for the family to lose itself in catching up.
Half an hour in publicists reminded the translators that there were stars in the room. "Tell them who are here with you," says David Saltz, usually producing Super Bowl half time show. But nobody listened.
Eventually the family was in Mr. her and Pras Michel, a hip-hop artist, formerly of the Fugees. Family smiled kindly.
Mr. Her later said that he had been inspired by the family's strength and stamina to plan a trip to Haiti on Sunday to deliver a tent in person. But more than shelter, relatives in Port-au-Prince said they wanted an assurance that Peterson could stay in the United States permanently.
Conditions are so bad that "return to Haiti right now is certain death," says Mary Rose. Peterson must stay, she added, "even if it means we are dying so he can live."
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