The sea behind our ancestral house at Hikkaduwa on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka was my friend.

我家的祖屋位于斯里兰卡西南海岸的Hikkaduwa，而房子后面的大海就是我的朋友，是她听我讲话，给我带来安慰，同时她也令我着迷。

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My friends always ask me this question and I don't know how to answer them. They want to know why we left our ancestral house.

我的朋友都问我这个问题，不过我不知道怎么回答，他们都问，为什么我们离开我们祖先的房子到这里来呢？

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Dilip lived alone ever since he moved from his ancestral house at Barrakpore, to be closer to his working place at Jadavpur in south Kolkata.

迪利普独居自从他从他在Barrakpore祖传的房子，更接近他的工作地点在南部贾达沃·普尔加尔各答。

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His ancestral house is narrow and shaky, and looks like it's about to fall apart.

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His ancestral house - once home to 11 brothers, a sister and his parents - is currently being used as timber storage.

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Middleton Place Foundation, a public trust that runs his nearby ancestral plantation, Middleton Place, leases the bottom two floors of the house and runs them as a museum during the day.

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