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Pantry delivers food to needy despite fire

Quick ReadIn many ways, Thanksgiving 2009 was no different for the Rev. Diane Dunne.

Bayshore, New York - November 26, 2009: Rev.

Photo credit: Newsday/Photo by Joel Cairo | Bayshore, New York - November 26, 2009: Rev. Diane Dunne along with voluteers unload food that will be handed out to needy at the Love and Mercy Ministry in Bayshore , New York on November 26, 2009. (Photo by Joel Cairo)

In many ways, this Thanksgiving Day was no different for the Rev. Diane Dunne.

After a fire that destroyed her East Farmingdale food pantry, and a scramble to reorganize her preholiday food distribution, she wound up where she always does on the holiday: At a turkey dinner in a church basement in Bay Shore.

And she arrived with a van full of food.

As she darted in and out of Love...

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