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Reclaim Democracy

August 5, 2012 By Katy Butler

The way Sausalito designer Ruth Friend remembers it, her uneasiness began on September 11, 2001, when she watched the World Trade Center towers vaporize in an endless loop of fire, dust and smoke. She sensed that the worst was yet to come. But she didn’t speak about it much.

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