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Byline: Dave Orrick Daily Herald Staff Writer
She had just finished law school in Hong Kong, and he had some time off from his job in Washington, D.C.
Her mother told them the white sands and crystal blue waters were unmatched. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance for a vacation in paradise, she said.
That's the simple story of how lifelong friends Moira Lee, who grew up in Barrington, and Andy Quathamer, a Glen Ellyn native, found themselves seated at Coffee Lovers beachfront cafe Sunday morning. The cafe sits along Patong Beach, the most popular stretch of Phuket, the most popular island along the slender finger of Thailand that stretches into the Andaman Sea, the most popular vacation spot in the Indian Ocean.
Here's the story of how they didn't get killed by the tsunami that killed thousands all around them:
Lee and Quathamer weren't supposed to be at the cafe. They were supposed to be on a boat bound for a popular snorkeling destination.
"We went snorkeling the day before," Lee, 28, recalled in a telephone interview from a hotel in Bangkok on Thursday. "They all said at...
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