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After Katrina, many folks were able to come back to New Orleans and pretty much put their lives back together.
Then again, many folks were upended, rearranged, recycled, turned out and transformed, unable to regain any semblance of their former selves, for better or worse. Michael Dingler would fit this latter category.
For a while there, he was sitting pretty in the post-storm environment. He had a nice house and two young, healthy kids. He was four months away from certification as one of the region's elite and legendarily well-compensated riverboat pilots. On the surface, it all looked peachy.
But it wasn't. In the spring of 2006, a darkness that had been looming for many months enveloped him completely. He walked away from the job, which in turn cost him his marriage. He left town, spent months driving around out West, searching for, well .¤.¤. what exactly?
"I was searching for myself," he says. "At the same time, I was also running from myself, not realizing that, no matter where I ended up, I was still going to be me."
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