Clothing and shoes were scattered through the concrete rubble, broken steel bars and shattered wooden window frames littering the streets.

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An elderly woman named Sikni Hamiad(ph) sat on the sidewalk next to a broken refrigerator full of melting Snickers bars and cans of soda.

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Her 8-year-old daughter, Sophia, had broken her arm falling off the monkey bars.

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The ice can be broken further in the small selection of shops and coffee bars that pepper tiny Lopez Village, where opinionated residents happily incorporate outsiders into their feisty banter.

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Ensuing years were marked by such songs as "Things Have Gone to Pieces" and "A Good Year for the Roses, " which highlighted broken or thwarted romance and the kind of longing that suggests late, lonely nights in bars.

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