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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Elizabeth Baier
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. _ Juan Lopez stood shirtless in front if his battered, rusty trailer park home with a Budweiser longneck in his right hand and the Mexican novel "Estefania" in the other.
A huge live oak tree and several pine trees swayed over Lopez's trailer as Hurricane Wilma's winds approached southwest Florida Sunday afternoon. His brown skin shimmered as he came out of his hot, humid home.
Lopez, a 43-year-old construction worker, will weather his first storm at home, even though officials issued a mandatory evacuation order for all mobile homes in Lee, Collier and Charlotte...
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