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Sri Lankan Blog Portrait celebrates the victory of the US presidential candidate Barack Obama and opines: “Around America, the world has moved on in soul and spirit. America can now step into the young, modern world, and come out of that old-fashioned, backward shell that they were wallowing in.”
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