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LI cousins frantic to contact kin in Chile after huge quake
Quick ReadBy Saturday afternoon, Contreras had gotten messages from some relatives, but hadn't heard from an uncle yet.
Photo credit: Pervaiz Shallwani | Carolina Contreras, 19, of Cedarhurst, and her cousin Carlos Ortiz, 21, at Barros Loco Chilean restaurant in Midtown, spent a sleepless night trying to track down loved ones affected by an overnight earthquake in Chile. (Feb. 27, 2010)
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Carolina Contreras had just arrived home in Cedarhurst at about 2 a.m. Saturday when she logged on to her Facebook page and saw the frantic messages about a devastating earthquake in her native Chile.
Contreras, 19, woke her parents and called local family members. But her calls to Santiago, the Chilean capital, and San Antonio, the port city where she lived until she was 11, wouldn't go through.
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