Ship/Member: 8jun / international student AU for the other sebongs
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Additional Tags: bleak boyband bingo foreign idol board, finding home in a person only to realise you are projecting, travel writing (low-key high-key love letters to a time and place)
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

He too was from Sri Lanka, and in retrospect she could see that she had begun loving him because of her loneliness. She could cook a curry with him. She could refer to a specific barber in Bambalapitiya, could whisper her desire for jaggery or jackfruit and be understood. That made a difference in the new, too brittle country.

- Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje