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First Place
Melanie Burford The Dallas Morning News
"BLIND FAITH"
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Trinell McCray breaks into tears as Sue Sandford
holds her son Shawn Smith, after the extended McCray family moved into Sue
Sandford's house a week after Hurricane Katrina. The McCrays were embarking
on a search for a new home, joining one of the largest exoduses in the
nation's history. Sue Sandford, a divorced mother, wanted her four children
to know a world different from their own. She invited the McCray family into
her home on blind faith. 'People will look at you funny,' Sue warned them,
'not because you're black, but because you don't belong in my house. It's not
prejudice, it's protection.' Within days, the two families from radically
different backgrounds would form a lasting bond. Among myriad social
experiments the hurricane spawned, this was one that worked.
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