Eight months later, still trying to overcome her grief, Ikehashi, 43, has returned to Sri Lanka — this time as a member of a nongovernmental organization she helped set up to carry out relief projects in the north to help residents recover from the tsunami’s destruction and cope with civil war.
“I really cannot understand why I survived. I keep blaming myself for not being able to save him,” Ikehashi said.
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