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Twenty-year-old Gong Guilin rides his bicycle at the Sichuan People's Hospital in Chengdu in China's earthquake ravaged Sichuan province on May 7, 2009. Gong, who lost his legs in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, is one of several young quake victims at the hospital who couldn't help but showing off his shiny metallic legs that have literally given him a new lease on life after the May 12, 2008 8.0-magnitude quake which left nearly 87,000 people dead or unaccounted for.

A second image from Peter Parks.

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