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We were told to be ready for dinner by 6 p.m., so we had one and a half hours to kill before gathering at the lobby. My varsity mates and I, fourteen of us, on our regular bromance outing, had decided to embark on a six-day tour around Sri Lanka. Colombo was our last stop.                                       https://borderlessjournal.com/2025/01/14/not-quite-a-towering-inferno/ This work is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .

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