[B]Chile was hit by a devastating quake last weekend, killing hundreds and leaving hundreds of thousands more homeless. How do you cope after something so terrible?[/B]

Well, some people apparently play games. [URL=http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=21788]A story on ZAM[/URL] tells of a 33-year-old woman named Karen who was playing games when the quake hit. And two days later, after she discovered her family was OK, particularly those in the hardest hit areas, she was back playing games and making plans to play with friends.

From the story (she apologized for her broken English):

[INDENT]In this week, I only play Starcraft to keep my mind out of all this stuff. Today my best friend come to my house we start to talk and we decide to play this Friday and Saturday on my Xbox360... we are going to play Fifa 2010 and some Left 4 Dead to take out everything ... and try to relax ..."[/INDENT]Turns out hse had her spirits raised when on of the few things that survived was a [I]World of Warcraft[/I] stein she had recently purchased (see picture). So I guess games can offer hope as well.

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