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Maxwell: With the world's eyes on Orlando, let me tell you who we really are
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-orlando-shooting-who-we-are-scott-maxwell-20160615-column.htmlAs I wandered through the sea of TV trucks on Orange Avenue Tuesday, a strange sensation washed over me: That's usually me.
I'm usually the one who parachutes into a community with a media badge to interview grieving families and document tales of ravaged lives. After hurricanes and wildfires. In the streets of New York after 9/11.
I'm usually the one wondering: Before the tragedy struck, what was this place really like?
Well, America, allow me to answer that about Orlando.
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