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42-year Newsday reporter, Rhoda Amon, 85, dead

Rhoda Amon, a globe-trotting reporter who wrote about social trends and chronicled the lives of ordinary Long Islanders with passion and precision in 42 years at Newsday, died Saturday at her home in Port Washington.

Amon, 85, completed her final story for Newsday last week. She died of complications from breast cancer, diagnosed four years earlier.

An unassuming woman with a tireless...

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