"Everything we leave out is very basic".
I laughed, and thought that was the best way to explain just about everything we leave behind. .
"But, later on, after we settled in Beirut, it became obvious that we had lost everything we had left behind".
We were busy reinventing ourselves, and a chain restaurant in a tourist trap felt like everything we'd left Indiana to escape, an affront to our new determination to enjoy wine and eat a greater variety of lettuce.
"We gave everything we had left today and the way we lost is difficult to accept.
"Look at this," he said, "We cannot stay here anymore so we have taken everything we have left and gone to sit by the camp's main road.
Everything else we leave out.
We need to do everything we can, leave no stone that we know about unturned, and we won't.
"We need to do everything we can, leave no stone that we know about unturned," he said.
You don't have to watch NCIS to know that almost everything we do leaves some kind of trail or trace.
