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Canoe, Candle, and Twelve Minutes: How a Widow Outsmarted Death
Canoe, Candle, and Twelve Minutes: How a Widow Outsmarted Death
The cold will steal your fingers in twelve minutes - but not your mind: a 61-year-old retired teacher paddled alone, survived a 12-minute immersion in 46°F water, then left an impossible message-an unlit birthday candle standing upright on an overturned canoe eleven miles from the nearest boat launch. Who arranged the candle so precisely, and why would a single unlit candle become the clue that saved a life?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the morning a utility worker found the canoe and candle to the…
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