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A special girl's love lives on after her death

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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Hallie Geier was walking her dog, Cherry Lulu, on May 15,

2004, when she was killed by a sport utility vehicle outside her home in

Sunnyside Gardens.

"It sounded like an explosion," said Hallie's mother, Sofia Geier, 56, a

teacher and soap opera script writer.

Geier and her husband, Ted, 45, ran outside as their injured dog limped

into their two-story home....

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