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Postal worker Melissa Garcia stands with Joe Garcia outside his home Thursday. ‘I wasn’t dead, but I was close,’ Joe Garcia said. ‘Thank God for her I’m still around.’
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Luis Sánchez Saturno is senior Digital Enterprise Photographer for the Santa Fe New Mexican.
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