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A woman was wearing this shirt at Daneel Playground in New Orleans on October 10, 2009.…

Close-up of a white T-shirt with hand-lettered black text reading, "I survived KATRINA & all I have left is this lousy T-shirt.. (Seriously...this is it...)".

A woman was wearing this shirt at Daneel Playground in New Orleans on October 10, 2009. She said her brother bought it from a street vendor in New Orleans very soon after the storm, before many people had returned. He had come back to gut some people's houses.

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“A woman was wearing this shirt at Daneel Playground in New Orleans on October 10, 2009.…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/41359.

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