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Sabrina Dufaan and her family lost everything after their three-bedroom apartment in Montreal’s Saint-Leonard borough went up in flames.

“I feel like it looks like a dungeon. That’s the first thing I said. It’s not real, it’s not real,” Dufaan said in a recent interview.

The mother of two said her husband lit scented candles while they were home on Dec. 3 and left them unattended while they went to pick up their daughter.

“All of us could have gotten hurt. It could have been worse. I feel really bad, sometimes guilty,” she said.

Clothes, furniture, toys, and memories, all lost. But for Dufaan the worse is seeing her children in pain.

“[My daughter] asks me all the time for her toys, clothes, her room, she wants to come back home. My son, he’s not doing so well,” Dufaan said.

The family won’t be able to return to their home …

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