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The Horror! The Horror!

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Jean Bowling found the cheapest bottle of red wine in the Whole Foods grocery store here, hoping it would offer a momentary reprieve from the chaos that has become her life … Gone are the cocktail parties in Uptown New Orleans, the long afternoon sails.
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[they] have limited themselves to one cube for each glass of water. “It’s going to be a long haul,” she said. “Everyone is sacrificing in lots of ways.”
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When she arrived in Baton Rouge, Ms. Frost said, her boyfriend grumbled at the thought of buying used clothes at a thrift store, although it was economically prudent
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While the children once enjoyed the best private schools New Orleans had to offer, Mrs. Bowling said, she was now scrambling to get them enrolled in Baton Rouge. “I’ve tried to pull my strings here,” she said, but nothing had come through yet.

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