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It was easier to say I couldn't do something than to try it and fail when it was supposedly within my milieu. I had created my own boundaries based on fear of failure. We do it all the time. Sometimes those boundaries are broken down by ourselves, and sometimes they are broken down by a force greater than ourselves. In my case, that force took hold at the corner of De Longpre and Flores. --As told to Barbara Isenberg

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TOMMY WARD, whose family has been harvesting oysters from the Gulf of Mexico since the 1920s, on the FDA's plan to ban the sale of raw oysters that are harvested in warm months; about 15 people die each year due to raw-oyster contamination
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TOMMY WARD, whose family has been harvesting oysters from the Gulf of Mexico since the 1920s, on the FDA's plan to ban the sale of raw oysters that are harvested in warm months; about 15 people die each year due to raw-oyster contamination

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