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I was born in Tonga and lived there until I was 16, so it has been heart-breaking to watch coverage of the catastrophic eruption on January 15 of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano. It is the latest in a series of natural disasters to hit the Kingdom of Tonga in the past five years and has caused havoc in our beautiful island nation.

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