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it was a battle. looking back i don't think we ever had a chance, but you don't just give up on a young man in the prime of his life. we had to try. he was my patient. he was a foreigner, on a gap year in africa where he was going to learn all sorts of things about conservation and african wildlife. up until the accident, all had apparently gone well. the group of teenagers on the course had so far enjoyed every moment of their time together and some close friendships had even begun to develop. as it always is with these sorts of things, when they all climbed into the bus that day, no one expected what rippling ramifications there would be from what was later told to me, it sounded like the accident happened in slow motion. the bus was driving along a fairly narrow mountain pass when, while negotiation one of the sharper turns, one of the back wheels went off the road into a ditch. as the bus drove on, the wheel was dragged along trying to remount the edge of the tar before a steep precipice that was looming up. it was unsuccessful. when the side of the road dropped away beneath the wheel, the undercarriage of the bus smashed into the edge of the road and slowly started getting dragged down. still the bus drove on. i suppose the driver either didn't realize the dire nature of his dilemma or he felt he still had a chance of pulling the bus back up onto the safety of the road. whatever his reasoning, it didn't work. slowly the back of the bus slipped further and further o...
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