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Thank you. Use glue. Okay, let's get into today's story. Early on the evening of June 12, 2012, a 25-year-old woman named Noemi Belanger opened up the door to her hotel room on Pee-P Island, which is a major tourist destination in Thailand. Once the door was unlocked, Noemi pushed it open, and she held it for her little sister, 20-year-old Audrey, who came in

wheeling all their suitcases. Noemmy and Audrey were both from Quebec, Canada, and they were also both

college students, and they were on this big, month-long vacation to celebrate the end of the

school year. They had been in Vietnam for the past three weeks, and today they had arrived in Thailand,

and their plan was to stay here for a bit before finally heading back to Quebec.

But for right now, Noemi in particular was feeling really exhausted.

I mean, there was a lot of travel getting here today, and, you know, the past three weeks had been loads of travel, and Noemi was kind of hitting a wall. And so as soon as she got into the room, all she really wanted to do was just flop down on the bed and just lay there for a little while. But she had also become a fairly experienced traveler by this point, and she knew before she did that, she just wanted to make sure that, you know, the bed was cleanly, you know? I mean, make sure there were no bedbugs or, you know, unclean sheets or something. And so she went over and pulled the sheets back and checked, and the sheets were pristine. It was beautiful. The room felt super nice. And so she just flopped down on the bed and just enjoyed the air conditioning.

And at the same time that she was doing this, Andre, who very likely was also feeling all

the symptoms of travel over so many weeks, I mean, she likely was very, very tired.

But she instead of laying down, went right into the bathroom and started getting ready

for the night.

And Noemi sort of understood why.

So while the girls were in Vietnam, they had met these two really nice guys who were from Brazil,

and they had kind of hit it off, and, you know, they had left today to go to Thailand. And wouldn't you know it,

it turned out those guys, their itinerary included them coming to Thailand today. And so it was kind of like this revelation at the end of their time in Vietnam that they would not have to say goodbye basically forever, but instead, you know, the good times could keep on rolling in Thailand.

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