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Extended Family

: Two storeys high, a beautiful ochre colour with ornate work around the windows, according to Huffington Post Canada. He lived there with his extended family -- children and grandchildren and in-laws -- 20 people in all. "Three years ago it was bombed. A lovely house in his home town in Syria. We were all inside and the walls fell in. No one was hurt." He paused as his son-in-law said something, then added. "That right, one of us got a bit of shrapnel in our face, but thank God we were all OK." "No one is left in our town. We pulled two of the little ones out of the rubble. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.