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Inside Mayada’s home, the living room has a frieze of shrapnel spatter covering a wall.

Because the kitchen is unusable, Blanca has to wash her dishes in the bathtub, and she has improvised a cooking area with a gas camping stove in a corner of her living room.

"We were sitting in my living room, reading the Bible," she said, and spontaneously decided to "hit record and started talking."

"This is the couch. There, the curtains. That was the living room. And that was the bedroom. That's my daughter's bicycle," she said.

“I keep an eye out for everyone,” says Abraham, a sales recruiter who works from their living room, which overlooks the street.