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Helena Buonanno Foulkes has always been unflappable. Is she now unbeatable?

Published Oct 20, 2026, 5:15 AM

Helena Buonanno was 13 years old when the Blizzard of 1978 left her stranded with her toddler sister and their panicked babysitter at the family’s Providence home. Her three other siblings were snowed in at their elementary school, and her parents were across the country attending a convention in San Francisco, unable to return home […]

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