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MARGARET TAYLOR lends a hand.
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of the Gulf Coast in a	It's
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United States in the last 100 years.	A
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Gene Taylor's home - thousands of	V
homes - and left the Gulf Coast with a	/
serious case of the slabs.
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damages which occurred from this	c
catastrophic event should be assigned	i
to the federally-backed National	1
Flood Insurance program and not them. A stance Gene Taylor does not agree with. He believes the insurance companies should be held accountable to both the policyholders and the taxpayers.
During the week Taylor is in Washington D.C. demanding justice for the people of the Gulf Coast
-	which is exactly what we expect our U.S. Representative to do.
But on weekends he's in Bay St. Louis, in a trailer with his wife Margaret, rebuilding their home and their life - one stick of wood at a time
-	just like the rest of us.
He recently took time out from working on his house to reflect on the last 20 months.
Sometimes it seems like it happened
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