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Port Washington woman sentenced in fatal DWI crash

Vincent Mesolella showed a Nassau County judge a photo of himself with his daughter when she was just a toddler, the two of them sitting nose to nose on a green lawn.

"Her eyes are saying, 'I feel your love, and I know you won't let any harm come to me,' " Mesolella said of that photo, taken nearly 17 years ago. "I failed her."

Ansaf Ibrahim, 22, of Port Washington, who pleaded guilty...

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