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Sep. 8--NEW ORLEANS -- Seventy-five-year-old Toney Almeda stood in the doorway of her hurricane ravaged apartment yesterday and swore she'd kill herself before letting rescuers take her to safety.
"I'd rather be dead than in a shelter. The thought of it makes me sick," Almeda spat at Norrie Edgar, 34, a special investigator with the state Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control. He was one of three people trying to convince the feisty woman to leave her stiflingly hot ninth-floor apartment at the Nazareth Inn home for the elderly.
"You can die a couple of years down...
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