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West Baltimore business owners pick up the pieces
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Sheranda Palmer and co-owns the building housing R&M Grocery, which was trashed by looters Monday.
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Correction: A previous version of this story misspelled the name of housing project Gilmor Homes. The text has been corrected.
Additional reporting by Mary Wiltenburg.
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