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Lawyer, towboat captain rescue angler from frigid waters

A Manhattan lawyer and a South Shore towboat captain pulled a onetime correction officer out of frigid waters after he had fallen overboard and drifted for an hour.

"I was thinking about my kids and not seeing them anymore," said John Signer, 45, from the hospital Friday where he was being treated for severe hypothermia.

Signer, an avid angler from Holbrook and onetime city correction...

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