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HALIFAX — Jeanette MacDonald whimpered and her bruised hand shook as the 85-year-old woman recalled being punched in the face by a stranger and dragged from her Halifax apartment during a bizarre home invasion.

“I was scared to death,” MacDonald said Wednesday, while sitting on a green recliner in her home with a flannel blanket tucked around her legs.

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MacDonald said she was alone in her basement apartment in Halifax’s west end Tuesday night when she heard a bang on the door. She opened the door to find two young men, who demanded money.

“They just kept asking me for money. They said, ‘Do you want to live? You better give us the money.’ And I said, ‘I don’t have any money to give you,”‘ she said, raising her voice as she described repeatedly refusing the young man’s demands.

Do you want to live? You better give us the money

MacDonald, who uses a walker to get around, was pushed to the floor, then dragged from her home and forced to the pavement.

“My leg was all full of blood and I got hit here, too,” said MacDonald, pointing to a large purple bruise surrounding her right eye. “They hit me, knocked me to the pavement … and I started screaming.”