Man. Read Mike Dawson: "Pat Campbell is giddy Wednesday as she emerges from her dank trailer, which has no electricity, and stands in her yard of squalor – a sagging heap of busted furniture, rain-soaked blankets and mattresses with nesting holes, where birds and rats pick over moldy bread and empty condensed milk cans. It's an hour before the Village Board will begin eminent domain proceedings to grab this land, the last of her lakefront property. "Tonight. Tonight is going to be my debut. My theatrical debut. You know, I should have been an actress, like Ava Gardner, then she married that creep Frank Sinatra, but my mother was a rigid Catholic and, and … You know I have this condition." She starts to cry and hunches over and lowers her eyes."
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