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Fear Gives Way to Hope


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Last year was particularly difficult for Eleanor Smith. First she was injured in a brutal assault that knocked her teeth out and left her temporarily deaf. Later her checkbook was stolen and her car was vandalised. Hoping to put the painful past behind her, she left her job as the owner of a bar and moved to a safer neighbourhood in England.

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