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A Nepalese couple who lost their home and flower shop in devastating floods continue returning twice a day to the site, finding solace in memories and the keys to the home they can no longer locate.

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00:01Twice a day, Madhav Gimire and Ambika Aryal return to a place they can no longer call home.
00:08The couple, from Devigat, Nepal, walk across the hardened mud where their house once stood,
00:14after catastrophic floods swept away their home and buried much of their village.
00:19They can no longer identify exactly where their house stood, but still return to the site every day.
00:30They also destroyed the location of the island, and some of the point was, the place that they were going
00:39in front of their village.
00:40And I remember that a place of village like Jerusalem and then the place where they went,
00:40where they wanted to go and live, a place where those buildings are going,
00:47and the place where there is going to be a place where the village is going.
00:49The city like the city's village is living, so there is also a lot of people that have been there.
01:17The couple's home stood in their ancestral village, where they also ran a flower shop
01:22near a temple.
01:23The floods destroyed their house, shop and belongings.
01:27Today, Gimir carries only the keys to his destroyed home, one of the few remaining links to
01:32the life they once had.
01:51At least 1,400 people have been killed in the disaster.
01:56While more than 5,400 remain missing in Nepal and Tibet.
02:01Devagat was among the worst hit areas, with homes and other buildings destroyed, and roads
02:07and bridges washed away by the floods and mudslides.

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