Having learned some English after being taken in by a missionary in Haiti, Mich enjoyed celebrity status on the USNS Comfort, the full-service U.S. Navy hospital ship that carried Flanary and 650 other medical personnel on "Continuing Promise 2009" — a four-month, seven-nation humanitarian mission still winding its way through the Caribbean and Central America and into South America.

Everyone enjoyed chatting with Mich, but Flanary, a registered nurse, relished a few special moments of her own with a boy not much bigger than your average 5-year-old.

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