The scores who return daily to wave faded photos of those long lost have sad tales to tell.

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But a shipper who hears tales about lost luggage may be inclined to patronize FedEx instead.

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Two states over, Beth Meeks, executive director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, shares tales of shelters filling up, of lost funding and growing daily calls to hot lines.

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Outside a shelter, the director assembles what seems like every lost and wrecked person in the city and halts the story to let them tell their tales.

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