One link even took us to a life-size deer decoy at Cabela's, a Nebraska-based hunting and outdoor site.

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Her mother's decades-old wedding portrait, her own eighth-grade graduation photo, a snapshot that captured her mom on a carefree teenage day, all damaged in a Sandy-sparked fire at Catania's home in suburban Deer Park, N.

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He brings me to the summit of a little mountain to take in a panorama of the bay and, with any luck, to spot some of Palawan's celebrity fauna: green sea turtles, dugongs, sharks, whale sharks and the world's most adorable ungulate, the Chihuahua-size Philippine mouse deer.

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"This time of year, people are making a lot of money selling deer and venison, it's noticeably worse in the run-up to Christmas, " she said.

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