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It's the first word you'll hear in Fiji and the last word said before a shell goes up at half the kava bars in America. "Bula" literally means life — and saying it to someone is wishing them exactly that. Here's what the word means, how Fijians actually use it, the clap-and-shell protocol it lives inside, and how to say it at a kava bar like someone who knows what they're saying.
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