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It was pouring rain in the Nepali village of Kaskikot, which was bad news for Laura Spero and the ceremony she had planned. Mid-April was far too early for monsoon weather, but one thing the 33-year-old had learned since she began traveling regularly between Bethesda and Nepal 11 years ago was that nothing in Nepal happens on schedule.
Kaskikot is a village of roughly 12,000 on a mountainside beneath the Himalayan Annapurna range. Almost everyone is a member of a subsistence farming family…
