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Carla has also seen her mum pawn her grandmother's rings in the past.

But they insisted, as did their clients, that they were unwitting pawns, proxies – one might even say "drones" – in a shadow war against the West.

In this government, men, women and children on the edge of hunger are merely pawns in a partisan campaign.

"I just wonder if he sees us all as pawns," the 29-year-old told AFP from his apartment in Queens, New York.

For the next several hours, Nick and Honey serve as unwitting pawns in the older couple’s clever, but vicious, mind games.