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Brian Plonka
The Spokesman-Review
"Living and Dying in Libby"

 

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"I was always wiping the dust from everything inside and out." said Libby, Montana resident Mary Cassidy before her death from asbestos exposure. Cassidy lived a stones throw away from the W.R. Grace vermiculite mine where her husband worked in the 1970's. 33% of the towns 10,000 residents now have lung abnormalities directly linked to the mines legacy.
 
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