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title: 'Before and After'
date: '2005-09-12T06:43:17-04:00'
permalink: /before-and-after/
tags:
    - family
    - politics
---

My stepfather just forwarded me a couple of photos sent to him by his junior partner in his real estate firm. The junior partner received these from a fraternity brother of his, who took the pictures before and after Katrina, from roughly the same spot in his Bay St. Louis yard.

<img src="img/before.jpg" alt="photo of a lovely white two-story house with a large yard">

That’s before. This is after.

<img src="img/after.jpg" alt="photo of the same yard, with only the front newel posts remaining">