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August 27, 2010

mandalay: I’ve mostly been trying to avoid all the Katrina anniversary hoopla but then Sazerac posted a link to the Big Picture and I am now crying in my office. I think this photo did the trick because my dad is now dependent on oxygen due to his lung cancer. Evelyn Turner cries alongside the body of her common-law husband, Xavier Bowie, after he died in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bowie and Turner had decided to ride out Hurricane Katrina when they could not find a way to leave the city. Bowie, who had lung cancer, died when he ran out of oxygen Tuesday afternoon. Well now I’m crying in my office with you, M.

mandalay:

I’ve mostly been trying to avoid all the Katrina anniversary hoopla but then Sazerac posted a link to the Big Picture and I am now crying in my office. I think this photo did the trick because my dad is now dependent on oxygen due to his lung cancer.

Evelyn Turner cries alongside the body of her common-law husband, Xavier Bowie, after he died in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bowie and Turner had decided to ride out Hurricane Katrina when they could not find a way to leave the city. Bowie, who had lung cancer, died when he ran out of oxygen Tuesday afternoon.

Well now I’m crying in my office with you, M.

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