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Then over the next few days, miners were coming home to my village, Dowlais, in tears - I'd never seen such a sight.
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If I hear my village is at peace, I will drop everything and go home with my children.
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"I was awake and I heard this boom and it shook my bed, " said Betty Steel, who lives in a retirement village adjacent to the nursing home.
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"To know we couldn't go back to see my family, my village -- it was horrible, horrible, " said Siren, who is now able to travel home once or twice a year.
CNN: May 24, 2012 -- Updated 1300 GMT (2100 HKT)