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** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY DEC. 24 ** In this photo dated Dec. 7, 2005, Sriyawathi Malani Gunatilake adjusts the sari of her daughter Kumudu Priyadarshani as house construction continues in the background in Peraliya, about 65 kilometers (41 miles) south of Colombo Sri Lanka. Sriyawathi suffered terribly after the death of her only son, Pradeep, and for months afterwards her nighttime wails woke her neighbors. But two years after the tsunami rewrote life in Peraliya, she and the other remaining villagers are fashioning their own versions of normalcy, forging it from hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and a sense of grief _ some of it shared, much still painfully isolating _ over what they lost. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)