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listen now wherever you listen to your podcasts. I was working last Tuesday morning when an

aunt of mine sent me a message. She said her best friends aunt and daughter had died in one of the

hotel bombings in Sri Lanka. The whole family was at the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo for an Easter

buffet. Her friends aunt and daughter went to get dessert and then the bomb went off. The two of

them died, everyone else in the family lived. The two of them died because they went to get dessert.

My aunt sent me a selfie. Her friend's daughter had posted on Facebook minutes before she died.

Everyone's smiling. Everyone's happy. These messages, my aunt sent kind of destroyed me.

Last week I had to go pretty quickly from make sure family in Sri Lanka is okay to make a podcast

about the attacks. Hearing this one tragic story forced me to sort of slow down and think about what

was lost. Royal Raymond, the reporter from Royal Media in Colombo I spoke to last week, she more or

less went through the same thing. I think it's been for me personally really really high

counts. I don't know how to say it. I mean it took its toll. Let's say a week later it took its toll.

By last evening I was at the brink of collapse but I don't think I was really thinking about it at

the time. It was more about getting the news out really fast, finding out what was happening,

not just for myself but also for other people who were following and wanting to know. And

fielding a lot of calls, taking a lot of calls, going to as many places as I could.

So yeah, I was very busy and I didn't really have time to even perhaps accept or understand

on a human level or personal level what had happened. And it's only now there's some sort of

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