Loss of prized possession
Family's Bible destroyed
Published: Fri, Sep. 05, 1997 04:30AM
Modified Sat, Sep. 02, 2006 09:39PM
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closeDURHAM -- Pauline Richmond thanks God that Hurricane Fran didn't claim the lives of any of her loved ones.
But she wishes it had also spared something else: an 85-year-old family Bible. The Bible was on her living room coffee table when Fran hit, and it and her furniture were damaged when her house was flooded.
Her family had to live in hotels for more than two months. Richmond has since replaced her furniture and is even holding on to an antique chair. But she wasn't as fortunate with the Bible.
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Richmond tried to hold on the Bible, keeping it in storage because of its odor, but eventually had to throw it away.
"It was kind of passed down through my uncles and aunts when one would pass," Richmond said. "When I got it, it got destroyed. I couldn't do anything about it, but I think about that the most.
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