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https://storycorpsorg-staging.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/cotlonweb1-636x424.jpg636424Burnell Cotlon owns and operates the only grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward. When it opened in 2014, it was the first grocery store to serve that neighborhood since Hurricane Katrina. Here, he speaks with his mother, Lillie.