It's late, past 11 p.m., and after a makeshift dinner at a restaurant near their Quality Inn lodgings Wednesday night, Jia Shiyun and Liu Aijie begin to laugh. It's not hard to understand why they find the situation so amusing. (Full article: 1172 words)

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