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The Forgotten Sister: How a Creek Revealed an Erased Life
The Forgotten Sister: How a Creek Revealed an Erased Life
A waterproof sleeve pulled from Canawba Creek contained a photocopy of a 1931 ship manifest listing three children when every American record showed only two - an entire life erased for eighty-eight years. Who was the unnamed infant on that manifest, and why did a family's memory close around her absence?
In this episode, we follow how a document found on a catfish trotline moved from a county sheriff to a retired schoolteacher and then into a family that had never known it existed, tracing what that manifest reveals and what it undoes…
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