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Article: Cry me a river: from her vantage point in Harlem, New Orleans native Sarah Broom talks about the days after Katrina--the waiting, the anguish over her two missing brothers (was that Carl on TV? Michael?), the uplift of family, and how she'll remember her jazzy, brassy, beautiful, like-no-other city.
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- O, The Oprah Magazine
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- December 1, 2005
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WHEN YOU ARE from a huge, wild New Orleans family and realize that your city is underneath so much water it can't breathe, and when the other thing you know is that your two hardheaded brothers are somewhere in all of that mess, you simply try to get your legs to carry you through the way they did before: easy and glide-like. In your day-to-day, you neglect the serious consideration of any newspaper or broadcast except to scan for names and faces of the missing--Broom, Michael, Carl, my brothers.
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It has been three full days since Hurricane Katrina hit and I am in Harlem, where there is nothing to do but feel helpless. Tonight all ...
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