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nadine_mn

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6. I remember swimming in the streets after a hurricane hit

Reply to mucifer (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 28, 2017, 02:16 AM

Aug 2017

I was 5-6 yrs old...we lived in Alexandria, Louisiana. The coast got hit with the storm, we got floods and it turned the streets into rivers...and a bunch of us kids were swimming in them. Looking back now, good lord how did I not catch some type of horrible disease.

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