He said he looked over to see Congresswoman Giffords leaning against a wall, and a staffer had placed an arm around her.

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"I think they do something like that at the church, " the woman muttered, then scooped up her child and hurried off, his head bobbing as he looked back at us over his mother's shoulder.

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