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Sheryl Flanary, left, and U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. Sara Edmonson teach a patient to play cat's cradle at a Continuing Promise medical clinic set up by staff assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort in Paita, Peru, May 3, 2011. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

CAT'S CRADLE

Sheryl Flanary, left, and U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. Sara Edmonson teach a patient to play cat's cradle at a Continuing Promise medical clinic set up by staff assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort in Paita, Peru, May 3, 2011. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

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