Allah Alazawi moved his family to a safer place, but he stayed on to look after the house in his small workshop where he repaired furniture.

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"My wife went to work in the hospital, I dropped my son off at relatives living on higher ground, and I stayed to look after the house, " he said.

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It still felt right that the husband should go out to work and the wife should run the house and look after the children.

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David was depicted as a docile house-husband, happy to look after Brooklyn and do the housework.

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The owners were keen to move to a smaller house and, after meeting with a Bonhams expert, invited him to look at the stone, which was lying at the end of a path in their garden.

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