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  • Amid the Ashes, a Statue of Mary Stands as a Symbol of Survival

    11/17/2012 11:04:40 AM PST · by marshmallow · 25 replies
    The New York Times ^ | 11/16/12 | Samuel G. Freedman
    Where the McNulty home once stood on the corner of Oceanside and Gotham, a few blocks from the Atlantic Ocean on the spit of land in Queens called Breezy Point, there now remains a charred, twisted ruin. Flooding and fire have left behind nothing but the foundation. Within it are strewed a dislodged bathtub, an air-conditioner casing battered into a helix shape, a mailbox coated with ashes. As if all that loss were not loss enough, the storm spared a few tormenting reminders of life before its arrival. In the scorched shell of a cedar closet, screen windows stand neatly...