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“The Perfect Storm”, the movie based on Sebastian Junger’s novel about the deaths of six Gloucester, Massachusetts fishermen, opens nation-wide on June 30th. In another installment of our series, “Gloucester at the Crossroads,” Sandy Tolan reports as the city braces for an expected tourist boom in the wake of all the Hollywood hype, some old and painful memories are coming to the surface.

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