"For the past two years I have tried every effort to save LCD from falling apart, but all in vain, " Mr Mosisili said.

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But all was in vain.

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For years, she had tried in vain to make sense of that moment of farewell, but all she could recall was two heads bobbing before vanishing under the boat, the linked arms of two other friends, and a wave from Meimei, the youngest of the six, as she sank beneath the surface.

NEWYORKER: Alone