Cpl. Kevin Comeau, 30, of Tabusintac, N.B., listens to the defective heart of Djamshid Popal, 9, at the Canadian military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, June 26, 2004. With the benefit of hindsight, Popal — the fragile Afghan child whose life-saving heart procedure in 2004 made headlines across Canada — wishes he had never left the strange country that saved his life.
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