Le Coz is just back from an assignment to build a media operations center in Port-au-Prince.

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"It looks like Godzilla was here, " says Clothilde Le Coz, director of the Washington, D.

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There was a pause, during which Sasha was keenly aware of Coz behind her, waiting.

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She and Coz were collaborators, writing a story whose end had already been determined: she would get well.

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At times, Sasha had to fight the urge to lie simply as a way of depriving Coz of it.

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She had to do this right, to emerge unscathed, and if she could, if she did she had a frenzied sense of making a promise to Coz.

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Of course, these questions could have been resolved on Google in less than a minute, but they were useful questions (according to Coz), and, so far, Sasha had resisted.

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About 10 stations are now operating, says Le Coz.

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Still, not even Coz knew her real age.

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She and Coz had talked at length about why she kept the stolen objects separate from the rest of her life: because using them would imply greed or self-interest, because leaving them untouched made it seem as if she might one day give them back, because piling them in a heap kept their power from leaking away.

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