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"You'll always find people with connections... it's probably two or three degrees of separation here, most," said Roger Karlson, a 48-year-old Minneapolis resident who said he had personal links to at least two of the eight victims of the collapse.
"(Family and friends of victims) have bit of anger now... they're angry because they're starting to look at their life in a whole new way," said Alan Brankline, an American Red Cross counsellor based at the Minneapolis Metrodome Holiday Inn. "This is a really travelled bridge. I think you trust that these things are safe... that these things are being taken care of," said Kathleen Betcher, a Minneapolis woman standing outside St. Mary's Basilica, a large Catholic church in the centre of the city where offerings were made for victims.See the full content of this document
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Disaster Puts Grieving City in Uneasy Place
Minneapolis not used to attention
Gabrielle GirodayMINNEAPOLIS -- Like Winnipeg, humble Minneapolis is not used to being the centre of attention.On Friday, with pink-suited First Lady Laura Bush surve...See the full content of this document
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