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|author=Paul Forkan and Rob Forkan
|title=Tsunami Kids: Our journey from survival to success
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=On Boxing Day 2004, when many of us were celebrating the Christmas holidays with our families, eating leftover turkey, reading books and enjoying time with loved ones, a huge tragedy was unfolding on the other side of the world. The Boxing Day Tsunami killed over 230,000 people, and caused widespread devastation to large parts of Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, the Maldives and Somalia. The Forkan family - Mum, Dad, and four of their children, were in Sri Lanka, a spur of the moment choice of destination that ultimately proved to be tragic. The parents, Kevin and Sandra, were killed in the flood. The children, orphaned, injured and without any possessions, traveled the 200 kilometres back to a city, where they contacted elder siblings and were swiftly flown back to the UK.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433570</amazonuk>
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|summary=I used to love the problem pages of magazines as a teenager. My friends and I would pour over the letters which invariable ended with some form of the question ''Am I normal?'' and mock the invariable Agony Aunt answer of ''Of course you’re normal'', hooting instead ''No, you’re, really, REALLY not!'' That response perhaps illustrates why none of us decided to follow that as a career plan, but Irma Kurtz did, and as agony aunt for Cosmopolitan for more than 40 years it’s safe to say she has been a fair bit more sympathetic than we ever were.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883113</amazonuk>
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