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Couple Swept Away Off Jamestown Identified: DEM
The man and woman were from Quincy, Mass. They died after a wave swept the woman off the rocks, and the man jumped in and tried to save her.

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The man and woman were from Quincy, Mass. They died after a wave swept the woman off the rocks, and the man jumped in and tried to save her.

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