"We are Nepal now. It is no longer the king's country," said Ram Shrestha, a 26-year-old store clerk. "Tomorrow we will celebrate and he will leave the palace."

Now that statement pretty much sums up what the change means to a lot of people.

from cnn http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/27/nepal.ap/index.html

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