Then he could have the funeral she had planned for him, with the horse-drawn hearse, and his grave would be marked with the wooden cross she kept on the mantlepiece.

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"The first incident was when the big, wooden cross, wrapped in ham, fell into the house after a knock at the door, " said Mr Alam.

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Behind the church's altar, Father Moretti placed a wooden cross showing mud huts and tall glass buildings as well as an outline of the country's map "a symbol of the resurrection of Afghanistan, " he says.

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