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US tourists stranded abroad desperate to secure return

by Associated Press
| March 21, 2020 6:03 PM

After being confined to a hotel room in Peru and watching “heavily armed guards” patrolling the streets, Linda Scruggs was awash with emotions Saturday when she glimpsed out the airplane window at the Florida Everglades below.

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