He said he pre-emptively built an iron gate around his home, three streets away from Midan.

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Kyle Kaepernick, the quarterback's older brother, says Sammy once broke through an iron gate and vanished.

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Then a rusty iron gate creaks open and a huge man pops into the twilight.

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Number 212, one of the most eye-catching houses in the neighbourhood, is a large blue residence, separated from the street by a heavy-set iron gate.

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The nearly 15-foot-tall front gate was hand worked from wrought iron with three-dimensional flowers, gold-painted leaves and curving vines.

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Over the entrance there still remained a massive grill of Italian wrought iron, and a battered capital of marble surmounted each of the lofty gate-posts.

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