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The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

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Jayantha Perera In 2016, Shyamala and I visited Peru and Chile in South America. We flew from Miami in the USA nine hours before landing at Santiago Airport in Chile. The sky was blue, and a mild cool ...

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As 2024 drew to a close, CDT editors compiled a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, ...