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Austrian couple reunited after three days apart

January 01, 2005

Bangkok, Thailand - Heinz Radaelli figures he's a very lucky man, even though he's got scrapes, cuts and bruises from his swollen toes to the tips of his ears. The pair of khaki shorts and a print shirt draped over a chair in his hospital room are the only possessions he has left.

The Austrian retiree saw the bodies that littered the beaches of Thailand's Phuket island after a tsunami roared ashore and realizes he could have been among them. And he was reunited with Marianne, his wife of 30 years, three days after she was torn from his grip by a wall of water.

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