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      by Wendy Rodrigue</title>
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      <![CDATA[Thank you! So well-written...because YOU need MY approval...ha!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Katherine Davidson]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This was a wonderfully written journey of pain and loss, and of determination and stamina, and finally, the truth of your love for a city that I also love. I hope, no,  I know that New Orleans and it's beautiful people will continue to shine.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Laurie Williams DesAutels]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[You are such a beautiful woman. This article is so beautiful and truly shows how much you LOVE New Orleans.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[MARTY CARDEN]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Wendy,Thx for your thoughts and remembrances...heartfelt and beautifully done.<br>
Our prayers are, once again, with you all.
        
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      <![CDATA[Wendy, we're waiting for Isaac right now on the North Shore and I can't tell you how much I appreciated reading your thoughts about the aftermath of Katrina. Thank you so much...
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Barbara Redding]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[God BLESS us as we wait for Isaac<br>
        
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      <![CDATA[WOW, WEndy . . . beautifully written!!!!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Kay Wilkins]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Wendy,<br>
I spent the 6th anniversary of Katrina in New Jersey helping with the flood clean-up from Hurricane Irene. Your words resonate so much with me, and with my experiences this past week.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Freda]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Mizliz said it best, "what a love letter to New Orleans!" Your story captured the heart of the  beloved city!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Kristin Fouquet]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Indeed a wonderful tribute, Wendy.<br>
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re:And yet our oak, twice each year since Katrina, holds parrots, a whole hierarchy of them, from the top of the tree to the bottom, the macaws to the finches, a migrating flock of freed animals, perhaps the meaningful equivalent of a costumed tradition.<br>
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So beautiful. Long live you and your husband and your oak.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[EMER FERGUSON]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Congratulation Wendy - what a wonderful tribute and remembrance<br>
blog on New Orleans and Katrina's paralyzing and devastating effects<br>
on your beautiful city.<br>
The black and white photographs in themselves are so descriptive.<br>
They lend such a surreal factor to the empty city.<br>
Very few have ever seen Cafe du Monde without a line and to see the<br>
Cathedral without anyone,except you, lends such an air of poignancy<br>
that it is heartbreaking in it's simplicity - a place devoid of life,of people, everything stopped, everyone gone - evacuated,scattered.<br>
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I am sure you were comforted on that,oh so sad, day by Tony Bernard's comment that New Orleans would shine again.<br>
I was certainly aware on my last visit,a few weeks ago, that his<br>
words thankfully have come to pass !<br>
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Thank you for sharing your personal photographs with all of us<br>
we can only imagine how painful they are to look at.<br>
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Let the good times roll for a very long time in America's most<br>
fun city !
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Wendy Rodrigue]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I'm truly stunned and grateful for this response. I had hoped that the post might resonate even a little for some.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Joni DeKrey Thibodeaux]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Beautifully written! You make New Orleans sound like a dear old friend.........which of course she is.
        
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          <a href="http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/Profile?oid=1872292">Joni DeKrey Thibodeaux</a>]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[Kevin Allman]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Good God, Wendy. That may be the best thing you've ever written.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:56:24 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Beautiful!<br>
You make my heart sing with all the memories of our beloved N.O.<br>
My son now lives there for 14 years as did my past ancestors from <br>
the early beginnings and he refuses to move elsewhere in spite<br>
of all the downfalls and disbelief of other people.<br>
Live on New Orleans! You are the true beacon of HOPE for us all!!!
        
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      <![CDATA[I am also in Galveston, and it is almost three years for us. My husband is from New Oreleans and some of our family and their families were devastated by Katrina.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[mizliz]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What a love letter to New Orleans. One of the things that really got me the most was the tree devastation.
        
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      <![CDATA[What a tribute! On Galveston Island, Tx we lost most of our live oak trees from the storm surge of seawater on the island following Ike.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Lisa Broussard Januska]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Beautiful....simply beautiful, brought tears to my eyes.
        
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      <![CDATA[thanks for this.
        
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