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But then, the messages grew thinner. A trickle became a drip. Her profile picture changed from a photo of her smiling in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda to a generic blue gradient. Then, one day, her name changed to something he didn't recognise—a string of Burmese letters followed by a heart emoji and a Chinese surname.

Desperation took him to the monastery. The old monk, U Pandita, was the only other person in the village with a smartphone—a vintage device running Android 4.4. facebook lite ログイン

The next morning, he walked two hours to the highway town of Tachileik. He found a tea shop with a satellite dish and a generator. He asked the owner, a fat man with betel-nut-stained teeth, if he could charge his phone. But then, the messages grew thinner

"One thousand kyat," the man grunted.