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When a Jonesport woman’s sweet secret got out, a nation responded

by Pat Coate | March 18, 2008
"I'm sure I got more than 60 or 70
e-mails or phone messages from readers who said they wanted to help out."
- Erik Eckholm, reporter

Jonesport, Maine, USA - Elizabeth Emerson has never had much use for the extravagant.

Eckholm, a newspaper veteran of 20 years, said he has received more reaction from Times readers to that story than to any other he has written in recent memory.

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