What they get to know is that both are displaced persons, moving into old age with memories of happier years in India.
There are displaced persons (Moominpapa), divided families (the Moomintrolls), marching groups of soulless strangers (the Hattifatteners), and rewards for kindness rendered (the Stork, whose glasses were returned to him by Moomintroll).
And nearly three millions are displaced (Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs) across the nation, surviving on nothing, without water or food.
There was also that all-pervasive sense of eroticism that goes with the boredom of war, that freewheeling fantasising that goes with displaced persons who are displaced through no fault of their own.
Reports from 2011 estimate over 7 million people live in protracted refugee situations, and over 27 million are internally displaced persons and contextual differences within such groups are highlighted here where differences were found in quite similar populations.
While the conflict is reported to have spanned from 1994-2003, there are still displaced persons and new refugees leaving regularly.
Close to a million more Palestinians are called displaced persons because they fled from one part of what was then Jordan -- the West Bank -- to the other side of the Jordan River during the 1967 war.
Of these, 27.5 million were internally displaced persons, 15.4 million were refugees, and 837,500 were asylum seekers (4 ).
What we have now are roving bands of aircraft, pilots, flight attendants, passengers, ground crews and ticket counter personnel, but all of these are essentially displaced persons -- Palestinians, so to speak -- or birds without sanctuaries.
More than 500,000 are internally displaced persons and 130,000-150,000 have become refugees.in neighboring countries.
According to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, people forced to flee their communities as a result of a natural disaster are "internally displaced persons" who have the human right to return to their communities.
