Blue Christmas Holidays Add to Families' Sense of Loss

Augusta Chronicle, The › December 12, 2005

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NEW ORLEANS - For three months after Hurricane Katrina's waters consumed her home, Michelle Thomas locked her stress deep inside and put on a brave face for her husband and two daughters.

She focused on the positive: Her Ninth Ward home was destroyed and her hospital job was gone, but her husband and children, ages 7 and 16, were alive and the family was together.

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Blue Christmas Holidays Add to Families' Sense of Loss

Then came Thanksgiving, celebrated in her mother's cramped home in a small Louisiana town. Since then, the family has moved into a modest rental house they owned ...

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