The Tecca family’s house in Lyme, N.H., shortly after they bought it in 1993. (Tecca family via AP)

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The Tecca family and friends celebrate Easter in 2014 in the dining room of their old house in Lyme, N.H., which burned down the following year. (Tecca family via AP)

A celebration for Grace Tecca’s 17th birthday in the kitchen of the family’s Lyme, N.H., house, which burned down. (Tecca family via AP)

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Christmas stockings knitted by Martha Tecca’s mother hang in 2014 by the original 1790s fireplace in their Lyme, N.H., house, which burned down in a 2015 fire. (Tecca family via AP)

AP Illustration / Annie Ng

A “digging party” after the house fire in Lyme, N.H., in 2015, when friends came to help find things in the ashes. (Tecca family via AP)

AP Illustration / Annie Ng

AP Illustration / Annie Ng

AP Illustration / Annie Ng

AP Illustration / Annie Ng

AP Illustration / Annie Ng

A photo recovered from the ashes of the Tecca family’s home shows their youngest child, Grace, as a high school hockey player in 2014. (Tecca family via AP)

AP Illustration / Annie Ng

A photo recovered from the ashes of the Tecca family’s home shows Mark and Martha Tecca’s 1989 engagement photo. (Tecca family via AP)

AP Illustration / Annie Ng