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Japanese cherish the simple amid compounded tragedy

Tokyo (CNN) -- Comfort sprouted from the mundane Thursday as Japanese refused to buckle under the weight of mounting tragedies.

In the hardest-hit parts of the disaster-struck nation, thousands of people, many of them frail and elderly, settled in into shelters not knowing when, if ever, they might be able to leave.

They cherished the ordinary. Standing in line for lunch. Or arranging the few belongings they salvaged before water washed away their homes.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/17/japan.disaster/index.html?hpt=C1