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In the late afternoon on the 4th of July, off Fire Island, Lyudmila Emag was taking a final dip in the ocean when she was bitten by a shark on her inner thigh. Newsday’s Steve Langford reports.  Credit: Kendall Rodriguez; Photo credit: Max Tsarnekov