Linda Franklin, 47, of Arlington was shot October 14 as she loaded packages into her car outside a Home Depot store at Seven Corners Shopping Center on U.S. Highway 50 in Falls Church.

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Within minutes, a second Catholic man, who is in his 20s, was critically injured when he was shot on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast while sitting in a car outside a taxi depot.

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Within minutes, a second Catholic man Paul Scullion, who is in his 20s, was critically injured when he was shot on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast while sitting in a car outside a taxi depot.

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That floated all boats, certainly filling the stores for Wal-Mart and Home Depot and keeping the car lots humming for dealers of vehicles from Ford and General Motors.

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Over the past few decades, it has lost its Baptist church, grocery store, railroad depot, parking meters, four car dealerships, ten of its dozen bars, and crucially all but one of its deep mines.

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