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 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - As her cousins, sisters and parents settled down at the kitchen table, Marlie Casseus surveyed the plates of soft foods before her with a new attitude.
She now could enjoy the balls of fried egg and cheese, beans and rice, tomatoes sliced as thin as paper, and a cake with white frosting — foods once impossible to eat when a 16-pound tumor-like mass pushed outward from behind her nose and mouth.
The Christmas Day meal was one of the first in years where she did not lay her heavy head on the family's table and slurp mashed-up morsels through what was left of her mouth and only airway.
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