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Texas Woman, 76, Fights Off Cairo Crowd With Knife, Tea Kettle

A 76-year-old Texas woman living in the heart of Egypt's political chaos said she wielded a knife and a boiling tea kettle this week to fight off a crowd that had entered her home. "I had a knife, a nice sharp knife so I would make jabbing motions to them and there were times ... that I would make unladylike comments," Mary Thornberry said in a phone interview on ABC News' "Nightline" Thursday." A friend of mine on the phone suggested that I boil a kettle of hot water and so, every so often, I...Full Story
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