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For Giffords, a brief taste of her old life in Tucson

Laura Donovan Contributor
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She went past her old haunts and her old hiking trails in a driving tour of this city she loves.

Representative Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head by a gunman who opened fire at a constituent event on Jan. 8, returned to Tucson this weekend for the first time since she was transferred by ambulance from Tucson Medical Center to a Houston rehabilitation institute two weeks after the attack.

It was a low-key homecoming that featured no public events but plenty of private meetings with Ms. Giffords’s close circle of friends and relatives.

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