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Nuts For Henry: Maywood Mom Spends Quarantine Feeding Injured Neighborhood Squirrels Nuts For Henry: Maywood Mom Spends Quarantine Feeding Injured Neighborhood Squirrels
Nuts For Henry: Maywood Mom Spends Quarantine Feeding Injured Neighborhood Squirrels Susan Werbacher is the first to admit it: She's nuts for Henry. And she wouldn't have met him or his squirrel friends if it wasn't for the coronavirus quarantine she says. Before the shutdown, the mom of two woke up at 4 a.m., and spent two hours at the gym. But when the stay-at-home order was imposed, she spent that time taking walks around her apartment complex, and at-home workouts, instead. One day in late March, Susan was doing cardio outside when she saw a squirrel with half a tail scampering across her apartment complex's courtyard. "I wanted to get a closer look to see if I neede…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Secaucus Tattoo Artist: 'I Finally Found My Purpose' Secaucus Tattoo Artist: 'I Finally Found My Purpose'
Secaucus Tattoo Artist: 'I Finally Found My Purpose' If it makes a mark, then Jay Hernandez is using it. He doesn't have a college degree and he barely scraped through high school. But he says he's living his dream as a tattoo artist at Our Lady of Ink in Secaucus. And for the first time in his life, Hernandez feels at peace. "I've always been larger than life," said the artist, 31 of Fair Lawn. "But when I'm drawing, whether it's on an envelope or a wall, I'm quiet. "Tattooing is the only thing in my life that's given me purpose." Hernandez has long been the "eccentric one" in his family, he said -- complete with piercings, over-the-top …

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by Cecilia Levine