Haiti had been hit so hard by Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, that people considered themselves lucky to be alive.
Villages making contact with the outside in early October, days after the cyclone ripped through the impoverished nation's picturesque western peninsula, like Jeremie, were in ruins.
"My house was totally destroyed during the storm," said 29-year-old mother Marie Ange St Juste.
"I lost everything, but I was lucky that none of my children died. Now my situation is very bad, we need help."
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Liface Luc, 66, was one of many people affected by the storm in Haiti, where the death toll rose to more than 1,000 people.
One of Matthew's worst repercussions was the outbreak of cholera. Many people flooded hospital units for treatment.
"I don't need to say nothing. My house explains everything. It's completely flat down. I lost everything: my crops, my animals, so I have nothing left," Luc said, shirtless, wearing ripped cloth shorts, a straw hat and holding a machete in his hands to clean his property.
To his right, a chair was the only item distinguishable amid a pile of his possessions.
"It's like my two hands had been cut. What can I say? I'm at death's door."
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In the same town, a girl carried a container of water over her head bigger than she was.
When she made it home to her family, they were sitting in front of their concrete house, which was without a roof, and had almost nothing inside.
Matha Dominique, 67, sat next to her six family members, four of whom are children. One of the boys leaned on his mom's lap, another looked at the ground with his arms crossed, and one rested her chin in the palm of her hand.
Their problems were tangible.
"Since I was born, I never see something like that. I thought it was the end of the world," Dominique said. "Things that took many years and effort to have and build disappeared in a few minutes. That is crazy and does not make sense to me. At my age, do you think I could do something or start again? I think no."
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Nathalie Pierre, 28, looked exhausted, emotionally and physically, as she held up her 3-year-old daughter Rose.
"As you can see, my situation is very bad. I lost all I had: my house, my money, my boutique," Pierre said, the two standing next to a broken bed frame.
"The storm was terrible, but I was lucky to have my only daughter alive - that's the most important thing. Life goes on."
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"My house is completely destroyed, I have nothing left. Now we are homeless and I'm currently living in a shelter with my family but that makes no sense to me. I'm scared of the cholera. People around us are becoming sick, I really need help, so far we have not received any aid," said Prenille Nord, 42.
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"My house was completely destroyed during the hurricane, no one died but we lost everything; clothes, my son's medical reports, his medicines, money, everything. I built this small place to live with my baby and my wife. This is my new house, but our situation is very bad. I'm concerned about my baby, we really need help," said Eric Dominique, 26, posing with his wife Mickerlange Pierre, 25, and their one-year-old son Jevens.
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"As you can see, my house was completely destroyed, we lost everything. None of us died during the hurricane but we are homeless now," said Roseline Charles (right), 57.
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"I have no place to live, all my house is gone. I'm sleeping in a shelter and I haven't the strength to start again," said Rose-Marie Edmond, 74.
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"My house was completely destroyed; no wall left standing, no traces of the roof or the things I had inside. I lost everything. I stayed with neighbours for a short time before moving to a shelter. I don't have anyone dead but right now I'm another Haitian homeless living in a shelter," said Rose Marie Michel, 64.
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"The roof of my house is completely gone and some of walls were destroyed. I have lost everything I had, but I thank God that I have a friend who is letting me stay at her house. I could say I'm lucky, because none of my family died during the hurricane, but I do not think I'm lucky," said Carine Louis-Jean, 22.
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Case Jean, 92, is very old and does not speak, a relative said.
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Fara Pierrelouis, 32, and Fresno Thelisma, 16, pose for a photograph in their destroyed house.