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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
UPDATED: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012, 9:44 PM
KEN GOLDFIELD/(KEN GOLDFIELD FOR NY DAILY NEWS
The Young Leaders Elementary School in the South Bronx.
Love Andujar was leading the small group of parents and children picketing outside the entrance to the Young Leaders Elementary School in the South Bronx.
Next to Andujar was her autistic 7-year-old son Aaron. The boy held high a placard scribbled with a big letter “D” and the word “determination.”
This was Thursday afternoon, around the same time that Mayor Bloomberg was over on Staten Island giving President Obama a glimpse of the devastation Hurricane Sandy left behind.
Luckily, hurricane damage to the South Bronx was slight. But Andujar and the other parents are
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