You go away for a few days and grumble about crowded airports and babies on planes. Then, you come back to the real world and learn about 22,000 155,000+ dead in the countries surrounding the Indian Ocean and decide to shut the hell up because your life’s little problems are even smaller than you thought. What else can an observer say?
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A first-hand account from a Washington Post reporter swimming in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit.
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