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PEER Servants – 2021 Lydia Award Stories Source:Peerservants Atputhaseeli Fish Net Retailer/Repair Sri Lanka Sometimes, the greatest pain is not knowing. This is what M.A.S. Atputhaseeli from Sri Lanka lives with. She and her fisherman husband lived a happy life with their five children, even after one of their sons was blinded due to illness. But then came the Sri Lankan civil war when one day her husband went out fishing, he did not return before curfew, and she has never seen him since. Atputhaseeli and her children were forced to flee their village and lived for years as refugees, moving from place to place, getting handouts from relief agencies when they could get them, going hungry when they could not. Finally the civil war ended, and she and her family were able to return to their village, only to find all their property missing or destroyed. To feed her ...