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BREAKING NEWS: A person has been rushed to
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Updated: Sunday, 06 Jan 2013, 9:54 PM EST
Published : Sunday, 06 Jan 2013, 9:54 PM EST
RUTLAND, Mass. (WWLP) - A Massachusetts family who lost their daughter in Haiti's massive earthquake three years ago has finished building an orphanage in her memory.
The hilltop orphanage and medical clinic cost about $1-point-8 million to build.
It's built in the shape of the letter "B" to commemorate 19-year-old Britney Gengel from Rutland Massachusetts.
Britney was a sophomore at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.
She had gone to Haiti to hand out meals for a charity, but died when the hotel where she was staying in collapsed in the quake.
Officials say more than 300-thousand people perished in the disaster.
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