7.7 billion as of March, 2019.
Answer:
the ability to function effectively across cultures, to think and act appropriately, and to communicate and work with people from different cultural backgrounds – at home or abroad.
Explanation:
The author decided to include this because it creates the ambiguity of what happened afterwards, symbolizing how readers have an ambiguous idea of how the author's friend died. The couplets in the poem represent the friendship, and in other forms of writing this syntax would not be possible.
