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We couldn't figure out where all of the buildings had gone.

All we'd seen from the car window for days were the crumpled structures of the Sichuan quake zone. The heaps of snarled rebar and concrete nuggets had stretched for hours, for days.

But these were nowhere to be seen in rural Qingping township, just across the Longmen mountain range from the disaster's epicenter, Wenchuan county.