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A few years back, a man who had been adrift in the ocean for 33 days was eventually cast up on the Marshall Islands. To his amazement, he found out that his uncle, who was thought to have perished in the sea around 50 years prior, had also landed on the same island and had started a family there.

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A few years back, a man who had been adrift in the ocean for 33 days was eventually cast up on the Marshall Islands. To his amazement, he found out that his uncle, who was thought to have perished in the sea around 50 years prior, had also landed on the same island and had started a family there.

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