Getting home proved difficult with so many road closures.
Police searches of wasteland near her home proved fruitless.
But the angles of a 16-sided home proved to be far from intuitive.
Finding an affordable first home proved the hard part, since there were so many other buyers to compete with and few homes in his price range.
She was just looking for an affordable place to live, but her new home proved to be fertile ground for making her socially concerned photography.
Attempts by Madonna to get him to return home proved unsuccessful, and the singer took the matter to court in December.
Born in New York in 1917, Gleason moved to San Francisco in 1947, and his adopted home proved crucial to forming his sensibility and to his attunement to the times.
The project turned out so well and the allure of preserving an old home proved to be so strong that, over the years, the couple have bought nine other houses in the village.
And that maternalized "home" proved to be a handy political tool -- like "family" today, it is an emotionally resonant term available for appropriation for an almost limitless array of public agendas.
In the end the call of home proved too strong and, after four acclaimed seasons, Mafi headed to Australia leaving a hole in the Leicester side and some fond memories.
