"She kept in contact with us all the time, " Sierra's mother, Betzaida Jimenez, said.

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She kept her back to us, but I associated the water running into the dishpan with her tears.

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She kept insisting that when, not if, Harriette woke up, one of us must be by her side.

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"Even though we would dig ourselves out and push forward, the snow kept piling, and therefore we all got stuck, all of us, " she recalled later at Brookhaven Town Hall, where several dozen stranded motorists were taken after being rescued.

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While her international commitments have kept her away from us more than we'd like over the past few years, she will always be an Angel to me.

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