After this move I lost contact with her and when we met again some months later, she was back in Kisumu, staying with her sister, and 'tarmacking', as she put it, looking for work.
Not long afterward, he moved away, and I lost touch with him.
I lost a lot a few years ago: my marriage, my job, my mother, my daughter moved 3,000 miles away, I had to move, and then I lost my beloved dog, Lola.
I know the political center in the United States has been moving steadily to the right, but if this quote represents the new center, the right has been moving so fast I lost track of it.
"If I get one more moving violation, I lose my license," he said.
I did not have a pen and did not want to move in case I lost the signal.
Traffic was moving so slowly I lost my bearings and forgot whether to turn right or left at the next intersection.
When I moved to the Highlands, I lost none of this essential Scottish Europeanness, with its unfussy love of eccentricity, diversity, and live-and-let-live attitude, this sense of continuity with the continent even in remote glens.
When I moved to Israel four years ago, I lost a treasured possession: a silver wine goblet that was presented to my dad when he was president of the local synagogue for a number of years.
Then when he moved his hips to the music, I pictured them moving under my hands and I lost my place in the dance I was teaching.
