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TROY — As a mission of St. John’s Episcopal Church parishioners and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students arrived home safely from Haiti days after a severe earthquake devastated the impoverished nation, another parishioner is still awaiting her happy ending.
Therese Duvil, now of Rensselaer, was raised in Les Cayes in the southern part of Haiti. Several relatives — including cousins, an aunt and a stepbrother — still reside in Port-au-Prince, the highly populated capital city that saw the bulk of the destruction.
There’s been no word from them since Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
“We don’t know anything about them,” Duvil said after services at St. John’s Sunday.
The quake is another in a series of setbacks for the politically unstable country she left in 2000, she said. While she described Haitians as resilient, and fellow parishioners who have been there said the population can still manage to smile and laugh after misfortune upon misfortune, she said there’s little left for those in Port-au-Prince — or elsewhere in the Caribbean nation — to hold on to.
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