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Twin sisters Mary Margaret and Betty Duggan were born in New Orleans a day after Hurricane Katrina hit.

The Duggan family relocated to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, after the storm and subsequent levee failures.

The twins, now college juniors, say they wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

While they lost physical mementos in the storm, they gained a nurturing community and unique opportunities in Hattiesburg.

Mary Margaret Duggan and her twin sister Betty Duggan were supposed to have a different life when they were born.

Their parents, Jack and Hilary Duggan, had a home in New Orleans, where they planned to raise their family, immersed in the city's rich cultural and arts scenes.

The Duggans had worked on the new nursery where they would bring their newborns when the

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