While many gifts are modest — oranges, chocolate or liquor — failure to bring them home could be a source of shame, and especially painful for parents who work away from home most of the year.

The episodes drove other family members and friends away, and at night, home alone, Deborah would throw herself on her bed and literally howl in anguish, yearning for the man she married.

With a special burial ground accessible every hour of the day, friends and family from all around the world could practically come together at anytime to pay tribute to the deceased.