Haiti's Gingerbread Houses

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Six months after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless, reconstruction planners are turning to Haiti's old gingerbread houses as a potential blueprint for rebuilding the devastated Caribbean nation. Vivian Gauthier, 92, runs a dance academy out of her gingerbread house, which she has lived in since 1932.

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