Haitian girl, 8, fitted for leg by Shriners in Phila.
By Michael Matza
Inquirer Staff Writer
Eight-year-old Sarah Maurice, who lost a leg to Haiti's earthquake, had just one question for doctors Wednesday at Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.
When the technicians finish building her artificial limb, will it be the color of her chocolate-brown skin?
Prosthetist Jennifer Stieber assured her it would.
Sarah, an irrepressible elf in a blue-striped dress and a single brown sandal, mostly laid her crutches aside to hop about the hospital on her sound left leg during a morning of medical evaluation.
Her spunk belied her tragic backstory: the collapse of her family home that killed her 44-year-old mother and left Sarah trapped with the corpse in the rubble for two days; the amputation of the child's leg above the knee; a stifling week in a tent on a Port-au-Prince street; the agonizing evacuation over broken roads to the undamaged house of a great-aunt in the southwestern town of Port Salut.
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