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An eagle-eyed reader, obviously aware of Microkhan's longtime obsession with all things Sri Lanka, recently turned us on the marriage-proposal ads in one of the island nation's leading papers. They make for fascinating reading, in part as evidence of how closely first-generation immigrants remain tied to the marital practices of their homelands; the bulk of ads seem to be placed by parents seeking partners for their sons and daughters abroad. Our hunch is that there's a real fear that kids who l