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I've only been there in the last 10 years because I flew in there on my way to MS. I have a niece who lives there with her husband and four girls. They live in Mid-City where the yuppies all live. They were part of the fortunate few whose homes were not damaged in Katrina, though they had to evacuate until just after Christmas.

SirKit was in college at Loyola for one semester, in 1975, and that was enough for him to know he'd never want to live and raise a family there. I used to go there for Mardi Gras every year with my aunt and her seven kids and my younger sister. We never had any trouble until the last year we went, in 1971, when I was a senior in high school. My sister and our cousin who is her age, and were Juniors in high school, were going through a crowd trying to find a bathroom, and my cousin was cut on the hand by somebody's knife. We didn't go back after that.