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Some stories define us more than others. The stories we embrace as uniquely America are obvious. Less so are the ones we'd rather not consider as readily. And then there are the ones that are a little bit of both.

Today's Associated Press dispatch on life after Hurricane Michael is one such story.

William Capps, his wife Lorraine Smith and their newborn son, Luke, live in the back of a pickup truck in a Walmart parking lot, the AP reports.

"It really upset me, man, because I've always been the type of person who would help anyone," Capps said in an interview with The 

, which found the family outside the store Monday night.

They had the baby during the storm. Hospitals were inundated with hurricane victims. They were discharged and had nowhere to go.

Then the cops showed up shortly after the AP photographer did:

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Some stories define us more than others. The stories we embrace as uniquely America are obvious. Less so are the ones we'd rather not consider as readily. And then there are the ones that are a little bit of both.


For hurricane baby, home was a pickup in a Walmart parking lot

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