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FAIRVIEW, North Carolina ( WLOS ) -- Hurricane Helene's wrath claimed 108 lives to date across western North Carolina. One single family, the Craig family, suffered tremendously, losing 11 loved ones to a landslide. Even in their deep grief, a thread of hope remains.

“You never know what’s going to bring it up. What song or smell or whatever, it just happens,” said Alicia Craig about the storm that forever changed her and her extended family's lives.

To say Helene ripped apart the fabric of the Craig family hardly describes what they’ve endured over the last year.

“We were very close, we were very good friends, explained Alicia Craig of the relationship with her mother-in-law, Sandy Craig.

Among the 11 family members lost during Helene were her i

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