By Deepa Babington

L'AQUILA, Italy, April 7 (Reuters) - Angela Camon is one of hundreds of survivors in the earthquake-hit town of L'Aquila who woke up on the floor of her makeshift tent to the cold reality of rebuilding her life from scratch.

Her house destroyed and her office damaged after Monday's earthquake that reduced multi-storeyed buildings in the mountain city to rubble, 37-year old Camon sat on a blanket with a Bible in her hand and a vacant look in her eyes.

"I can't even bear to think of the future, because I have no idea what we will do," she said, choking back tears as she recounted how she and her husband had jumped out of the window after her apartment began to crumble around them.

"Yesterday was full of panic. Now I just feel a deep sadness."

Outside the tent, a grim-faced Antoneta Florentina stood holding a blanket. A Romanian who worked as a helper for an 86-year-old Italian woman, Florentina has no intention of returning to her job or apartment and pondered if that would mean returning to Romania if her job hunt proved fruitless.

"I won't remain here in L'Aquila, I'm far too scared," she said. "When I think of what I have to do next, I just have no idea. Maybe go to Rome to find work? I just don't know."

Some of the people who woke up after braving a cold night in the tents sobbed openly, while others stared forlornly into space, finding little comfort in the "We are all with you" banner headline in a local newspaper handed out for free.

Standing in the long line for hot milk and tea, 70-year-old Anna Bruno wondered if she could salvage the second-floor house she had lived in for 31 years, which did not collapse but now shows large crevices.

"If I think of going back to the house, all I see in my mind are those giant cracks on the wall. It's just what you think of repeatedly in your head," she said. "But I'm from here, I have to stay here, where else will I go?"

For Marco Manetta, the woes of his house pale in comparison to the damage to his small beverage business has taken. With the city's bars and cafes -- his clients -- shuttered indefinitely and home a large blue tent home for now, Manetta is despondent.

"For me this is it, it's all finished," he said. "It'll take years to get back to where we were." (Editing by Jon Boyle)

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