Today, their house made of pumice and tile stands like a gleaming sculpture sloping toward the sea.
Seven young soldiers, billeted in their house, made a mascot of young Alfred, who was profoundly impressed by the encounter.
Then, one day, as she was driving herself to the Zees', Ilka drove past their house, made a U-turn, and drove home.
A woman and her child (above) pose in front of their house made of cardboard in the Farm Centre IDP camp in Maiduguri.
Stubbornly to resist splitting infinitives can sound awkward or, worse, ambiguous: "He offered personally to guarantee the loan that the Clintons needed to buy their house" makes it unclear whether the offer, or the guarantee, was personal.
Father, mother, three sisters, and a small brother were sleeping in their house made of clay and palm leaves.
Phone calls to those left behind in their villages brought only bad news – Ossetian militias were looting and torching their houses, making sure they could never return.
The biblical rains that have pummelled the population of the country's east coast out of their houses, making thousands homeless, have turned the desert to floodplain.
What is more, the sheer volume of licensed dealers — more than 6,600 along the border alone, many of them operating out of their houses — makes policing them a tall order.
