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Van Uncle ” a short story from “Rainbows in Braille” – A collection of short stories – By Elmo Jayawardena Piyaratne had come to Colombo in search of fresher pastures. Never mind what colour – green, blue or dirt brown; he was forced into relocation and that was the reason for his hardly-explained migration. It was almost a year ago when Vidanalage Somasiri Piyaratne and his ‘not so’ soul partner, Monkey Face, left Kekirawa and moved lock, stock and dirty-linen to Colombo.        “Not that I was unhappy, but don’t you know,” he tried to explain to any and sundry who made inquiries and perversely prompted answers.         The “don’t you know” was a reply in limbo. That has been the agreement with Monkey Face. She gets to move to Colombo in exchange for her silence and he retains his dignity and the world was told a made up fairy-tale ...