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She Reads His Name in a Margin Note: The Nancy Schmidt Reunion

She Reads His Name in a Margin Note: The Nancy Schmidt Reunion

A single Norwegian country-code phone number scrawled in a library margin changed a nine-year-old disappearance into a living reunion - two survivors of a North Atlantic shipwreck had spent nearly a decade believing the other was dead because of an incomplete manifest and a lost supplemental log. How did a library loan, a maritime memoir, and a pen finally stitch those failures back together?

In this episode, you will hear how everyday paperwork, a misplaced supplemental passenger log, and a muffled radio transmission separated…

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