Two years later, the wounds of Aug. 4 are still raw

Photos of little Alexandra, one of the youngest victims of Beirut port explosion, adorn the apartment where the Naggears live in Beit Mery. Tracy watches tenderly as her husband, Paul, cradles their four-month-old son Axel. On Aug. 3, 2021, one day before the first anniversary of the blast, they heard for the first time the beating of his little heart. A glimmer of hope came into their lives. With the birth of Axel, Tracy and Paul Naggear got to live the life of a family of three again, a life that had been ripped away from them by the explosion at the port. "But that doesn't replace it," Tracy says, her face soft but with dark circles under her eyes. Axel smiles at her, and "then I think of Lexou," she says. Before the birth of her son, she used to cry when she looked at pictures of her daughter. "I can't afford to fall apart like I...