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THWARTED BY HURRICANE LENNY – ADVENTURER TORI MURDEN IS CELEBRATING THANKSGIVING IN A DINGHY IN THE CARIBBEAN. WILL SHE FULFILL HER DREAM TO BE THE FIRST WOMAN TO ROW SOLO ACROSS THE ATLANTIC?

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A Kentucky Lawyer now rowing across the Atlantic Ocean completely alone on a 23-foot boat was supposed to dock in Guadaloupe today, but her Thanksgiving celebration has been postponed, thanks to an at-sea bout with Hurricane Lenny.

Since Sept. 13, Tori Murden, 36, left from Tenerife in the Canary Islands, she has been keeping Internet junkies riveted with her daily e-mails about her 70-odd days on the deep and lonesome water, rowing an exhausting 2,596 miles in her boat, The American Pearl. The notes are sent via satellite to her Web site, http://www.adept.net/american-pearl. …..