We lose things all the time — keys, glasses, pens. Some of them seem unimportant (pens), while some of them seem essential (keys and glasses), but their loss is nothing compared to that of Maria ...

The guy next door went in to get the mother out, he said her pyjamas were stuck to her. "I’ve never seen anything like it. You see it on TV but you just don’t expect it a couple of doors away.