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- 0:03Speaker 1: On February eleventh, twenty nineteen, a man walking a trail
- 0:08Speaker 1: at Harlow Pines Recreation Area spotted something burgundy in a
- 0:12Speaker 1: drainage culvert. He climbed down and pulled it out. It
- 0:16Speaker 1: was a small leather address book forty seven years of
- 0:19Speaker 1: handwritten names and phone numbers, dry and uncreased, as if
- 0:24Speaker 1: someone had set it there on purpose. That trail had
- 0:27Speaker 1: only been opened for six days. The book belonged to
- 0:30Speaker 1: Eleanor Sharp, eighty one years old, retired music teacher, fourteen
- 0:35Speaker 1: Creekside Drive, Kellerton, Ohio. Eleanor had not reported it missing.
- 0:40Speaker 1: The woman living in her home had told the family
- 0:43Speaker 1: Eleanor was simply forgetful. But inside that book someone had
- 0:48Speaker 1: penciled small check marks next to three names, Eleanor's daughter,
- 0:53Speaker 1: Eleanor's doctor of eleven years, and a family friend who
- 0:57Speaker 1: had stopped being able to reach her. Those arks were
- 1:00Speaker 1: not random, and the book was not lost. What happened
- 1:04Speaker 1: at fourteen Creekside Drive between March of twenty eighteen and
- 1:08Speaker 1: February of twenty nineteen is a documented case of systematic
- 1:13Speaker 1: dismantle one person's reality, quietly taken apart piece by piece,
- 1:19Speaker 1: while everyone around her was given a different explanation for
- 1:23Speaker 1: every piece that disappeared. By the time anyone understood what
- 1:27Speaker 1: they were seeing, the architecture of Eleanor's daily life had
- 1:30Speaker 1: been restructured around a single point of control. There is
- 1:34Speaker 1: something in this case that resists easy summary. The address book,
- 1:38Speaker 1: sitting dry in a wet culvert four miles from Eleanor's
- 1:42Speaker 1: kitchen counter is the detail that keeps pulling the story
- 1:46Speaker 1: back into focus. It is small, it is specific, and
- 1:51Speaker 1: it tells you almost everything. Eleanor Sharp had lived at
- 1:55Speaker 1: fourteen Creekside Drive for twenty three years. She knew every
- 1:59Speaker 1: nameabor by name, and kept the address book on the
- 2:02Speaker 1: kitchen counter, always in the same spot, the way people
- 2:06Speaker 1: keep things they actually use. Forty seven years of contacts
- 2:10Speaker 1: written and rewritten in her own hand as numbers changed
- 2:14Speaker 1: and people moved. Students she had taught piano to in
- 2:19Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties, colleagues from the Kellerton School District, her
- 2:23Speaker 1: daughter Gina's number, written in ink so old it had
- 2:27Speaker 1: faded slightly at the edges. Eleanor had retired from teaching
- 2:31Speaker 1: in two thousand and four, but she had not retreated
- 2:33Speaker 1: from her life. She volunteered, she kept appointments, She called
- 2:38Speaker 1: people back. Her physician, doctor Patricia Enns, had treated her
- 2:42Speaker 1: for eleven years and described her as an engaged, organized
- 2:46Speaker 1: patient who asked specific questions and remembered the answers. In
- 2:51Speaker 1: October of twenty seventeen, Eleanor had a mild stroke. The
- 2:55Speaker 1: effects were real, but limited, some difficulty finding words, a
- 3:01Speaker 1: tremor in her right hand that made writing harder. Her cognition,
- 3:05Speaker 1: according to doctor Ens, remained largely intact. Eleanor adapted. She
- 3:10Speaker 1: asked for help with tasks that required fine motor control.
- 3:14Speaker 1: She accepted a reduction in her driving. She did not,
- 3:18Speaker 1: by any clinical or behavioral measure, become a different person.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Gina Sharp, forty seven, lived close enough to visit regularly.
- 3:28Speaker 1: She managed in office and had volunteered at a local
- 3:31Speaker 1: food pantry for years, missing only two shifts across four
- 3:35Speaker 1: years before the events of February two thousand nineteen. She
- 3:40Speaker 1: was not a distant daughter who checked in occasionally. She
- 3:43Speaker 1: was present, attentive, and she knew her mother well enough
- 3:47Speaker 1: to notice changes. The stroke created a practical gap. Eleanor
- 3:51Speaker 1: needed someone around more consistently. In March of twenty eighteen,
- 3:56Speaker 1: the family hired Christine Baker, forty four, through a home
- 4:00Speaker 1: care agency called Sunnyside Home Care. The arrangement started at
- 4:05Speaker 1: twenty hours per week. Christine drove Eleanor to appointments, helped
- 4:10Speaker 1: with household tasks, assisted with the paperwork that Eleanor's tremor
- 4:14Speaker 1: made difficult. To everyone watching, it looked exactly like what
- 4:18Speaker 1: it was supposed to be. By July of twenty eighteen,
- 4:22Speaker 1: Christine had expanded to full time hours. By September, she
- 4:26Speaker 1: had moved into the guest room. Each expansion came with
- 4:29Speaker 1: a reasonable explanation. Eleanor needed more support, the commute was inefficient,
- 4:35Speaker 1: Living in would allow for better continuity of care. Gina
- 4:39Speaker 1: had questions, but Christine had answers, and the answers were calm, detailed,
- 4:44Speaker 1: and delivered with the vocabulary of someone who understood elder care.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Gina would describe it later as a gradual raising of
- 4:52Speaker 1: a threshold. Each new step made slightly more sense because
- 4:56Speaker 1: the one before it had already been accepted. What Gina
- 4:59Speaker 1: did not know oh in September of twenty eighteen was
- 5:02Speaker 1: that the month Christine moved in was also the month
- 5:05Speaker 1: Eleanor's bank account was restructured. Christine Baker was added as
- 5:10Speaker 1: a secondary signatory. Eleanor's durable power of attorney, held by
- 5:14Speaker 1: Gina since twenty sixteen, was not consulted in that process.
- 5:19Speaker 1: The account restructuring was not announced, it was not explained,
- 5:23Speaker 1: and Eleanor by that point was no longer the person
- 5:27Speaker 1: who fielded calls from the bank. The bank account restructuring
- 5:31Speaker 1: happened in September of two thoy eighteen. Nobody announced it,
- 5:36Speaker 1: nobody explained it, and the person who would normally have noticed,
- 5:41Speaker 1: Gina Sharp, Eleanor's daughter, holder of the durable power of
- 5:44Speaker 1: attorney since twenty sixteen, was never informed. That power of
- 5:50Speaker 1: attorney existed precisely to prevent something like this. It was
- 5:54Speaker 1: a legal document, it had been signed, and it was
- 5:57Speaker 1: bypassed completely. Between September of two thousand eighteen and January
- 6:03Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, nineteen thousand dollars moved out of Eleanor's
- 6:08Speaker 1: checking account, not in one transfer, not in two, in
- 6:12Speaker 1: a series of individual withdrawals, each one under three thousand dollars.
- 6:18Speaker 1: A forensic financial examiner named Ben Corcoran would later identify
- 6:22Speaker 1: the pattern immediately It has a name in financial crime structuring.
- 6:27Speaker 1: It is the practice of keeping individual transactions small enough
- 6:31Speaker 1: to avoid automatic reporting thresholds. It is not something that
- 6:35Speaker 1: happens by accident. Each transfer was deliberate, each amount was calculated.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Someone understood exactly how the system worked. Beyond the bank account,
- 6:46Speaker 1: there was also the certificate of deposit. Eleanor held a
- 6:50Speaker 1: CD worth sixty two thousand dollars, a notarized document added
- 6:55Speaker 1: Christine Baker as a co holder. Doctor Patricia Ends. Eleanor's
- 6:59Speaker 1: face position of eleven years would testify at trial that
- 7:03Speaker 1: Eleanor's right hand tremor made it highly unlikely she had
- 7:06Speaker 1: signed that document without significant physical assistance. The signature existed,
- 7:12Speaker 1: the consent behind it was another question entirely. But the
- 7:16Speaker 1: financial picture, as damaging as it was, is only half
- 7:20Speaker 1: of what was being built inside fourteen Creekside Drive. In
- 7:24Speaker 1: November of twenty eighteen, doctor Ends flagged something. At a
- 7:28Speaker 1: routine appointment. Eleanor had been placed on two new medications,
- 7:33Speaker 1: an anti anxiety agent and a sleep aid that Ends
- 7:37Speaker 1: had not prescribed and had not been consulted about. Christine's
- 7:42Speaker 1: explanation was that Eleanor had been struggling at night, that
- 7:46Speaker 1: a walk in clinic visit had seen the practical solution,
- 7:50Speaker 1: that it was all meant to help. Gina accepted the explanation.
- 7:54Speaker 1: It sounded reasonable. Christine always sounded reasonable. What no one
- 7:59Speaker 1: said out loud that November, because no one yet had
- 8:03Speaker 1: reason to say it, was that the specific combination of
- 8:06Speaker 1: those two medications at those dosages would predictably increase confusion
- 8:11Speaker 1: and social withdrawal in a patient with Eleanor's profile, not
- 8:15Speaker 1: reduce anxiety, increase confusion, a pharmacological profile designed to look
- 8:20Speaker 1: like care while producing the opposite. Eleanor was getting quieter.
- 8:24Speaker 1: She was sleeping more. When family friends called, Christine would
- 8:29Speaker 1: say she was resting. Two calls in December of twenty
- 8:33Speaker 1: eighteen went that way. The friends left messages, Eleanor never
- 8:38Speaker 1: returned them. The address book sat on the kitchen counter.
- 8:42Speaker 1: It always had forty seven years of handwritten contacts in
- 8:46Speaker 1: a burgundy leather cover. Doctors, neighbors, the people Eleanor had
- 8:51Speaker 1: known long enough to trust. At some point in January
- 8:55Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, it disappeared from the counter. Nobody reported
- 8:59Speaker 1: it missing. Eleanor may not have known how to explain
- 9:03Speaker 1: what had happened to it, or she may have been
- 9:06Speaker 1: too confused by then to try. On February eleventh of
- 9:10Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, a man named Denis Underwood was walking a
- 9:14Speaker 1: trail at Harlow Pines Recreation Area, approximately four miles from
- 9:19Speaker 1: fourteen Creekside Drive. The trail had only been opened for
- 9:23Speaker 1: six days. Dennis found a burgundy leather address book lying
- 9:27Speaker 1: in a culvert beside the path. The book was dry,
- 9:30Speaker 1: the pages were uncreased. It had not been dropped or thrown.
- 9:34Speaker 1: It had been placed. Denis turned it in to Kellerton
- 9:37Speaker 1: p D. A patrolman named Kevin Ash identified the owner
- 9:41Speaker 1: from the first page, Eleanor Sharp, fourteen Creekside Drive, and
- 9:46Speaker 1: drove it back to the house. That same day, Christine
- 9:50Speaker 1: answered the door. Kevin Ash handed her the book. He
- 9:53Speaker 1: did not ask to see Eleanor. He did not call
- 9:56Speaker 1: Gina Sharp. He marked the item, returned and left. Christine
- 10:01Speaker 1: put the address book in the nightstand drawer in Eleanor's bedroom,
- 10:05Speaker 1: not on the kitchen counter, where it had always lived,
- 10:09Speaker 1: in a drawer out of reach. Eight days later, on
- 10:13Speaker 1: February nineteenth, Gina Sharp walked into a bank branch and
- 10:17Speaker 1: heard something that changed everything. A bank officer named Sandra
- 10:22Speaker 1: Fitch informed her that Eleanor's accounts had been restructured the
- 10:25Speaker 1: previous September. Gina was no longer the relevant contact. Christine
- 10:31Speaker 1: Baker was the secondary signatory of record. Gina drove directly
- 10:35Speaker 1: to Creekside Drive. She found her mother alone. Christine was
- 10:41Speaker 1: not there. Eleanor was frightened, and Eleanor, whose word finding
- 10:45Speaker 1: difficulty made sentences come slowly and sometimes sideways, said something
- 10:51Speaker 1: that came out clear. She took my book. She said,
- 10:54Speaker 1: I didn't need it any more. She said it confused me.
- 10:58Speaker 1: The penciled check mark inside the address book beside Gina's name,
- 11:03Speaker 1: beside doctor Enz's name, beside a family friend. Those marks
- 11:08Speaker 1: were Eleanor's evidence, read backwards that she had been trying
- 11:13Speaker 1: to reach some one. The book had been removed before
- 11:16Speaker 1: she could. Gina called her cousin Don Jones that evening.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Dawn was forty three, a licensed counselor who had shifted
- 11:24Speaker 1: her practice toward elder advocacy. She arrived the next morning.
- 11:29Speaker 1: She found Eleanor clearer, without Christine in the house, more present,
- 11:34Speaker 1: more responsive. Dawn requested the incident reports from both the
- 11:38Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department and Kellerton p D. She read Kevin Ash's
- 11:42Speaker 1: log entry. She read about the address book returned to
- 11:45Speaker 1: Christine and the door that Eleanor never came to. On
- 11:49Speaker 1: February twenty third, searching Eleanor's room, Gina found the address
- 11:53Speaker 1: book in the nightstand drawer. It should have been on
- 11:56Speaker 1: the counter, It had always been on the counter, and
- 12:00Speaker 1: its presence in that drawer, hidden in plain sight inside
- 12:03Speaker 1: Eleanor's own bedroom, confirmed what Eleanor had already said out loud.
- 12:09Speaker 1: The book had not been lost. It had been taken,
- 12:12Speaker 1: and when it came back, it was put somewhere Eleanor
- 12:16Speaker 1: could not easily use it. The simplest reading of Christine
- 12:19Speaker 1: Baker's behavior was the one she would later offer herself.
- 12:23Speaker 1: An informal arrangement imperfectly documented by a caregiver who had
- 12:27Speaker 1: taken on more responsibility than the paperwork, reflected a devoted
- 12:31Speaker 1: woman given authority she had not properly formalized medications meant
- 12:36Speaker 1: to help, financial access meant to be practical. Consider a
- 12:41Speaker 1: first version of events. Christine drives Eleanor to appointments, manages
- 12:45Speaker 1: the household, handles the calls. Eleanor is declining, the family
- 12:50Speaker 1: is stretched thin. Someone has to make decisions. Christine steps
- 12:56Speaker 1: into that space. The bank account, the medications, the reduced
- 13:00Speaker 1: contact with outside visitors, all of it, the accumulated weight
- 13:04Speaker 1: of a caregiver doing more than anyone had planned for.
- 13:07Speaker 1: That version collapses the moment you look at the address
- 13:10Speaker 1: book in the culvert. A caregiver managing informal authority does
- 13:15Speaker 1: not transport a patient's contact book four miles to a
- 13:18Speaker 1: recreation area trail and leave it in a ditch. That
- 13:23Speaker 1: is not disorganization. That is removal, deliberate physical removal of
- 13:29Speaker 1: the one object that connected Eleanor Sharp to every person
- 13:32Speaker 1: who might ask uncomfortable questions. And then there is Brandon Pell.
- 13:37Speaker 1: In January of twenty nineteen, a man arrived at fourteen
- 13:41Speaker 1: Creekside Drive in work Close, identifying himself as an HVAC
- 13:46Speaker 1: technician there for a routine service check. Brandon Pell was
- 13:49Speaker 1: Christine Baker's partner of approximately two years. He had no
- 13:54Speaker 1: HVAC credentials. He had purchased the uniform at a Columbus store.
- 13:59Speaker 1: While inside the house, he accessed the back bedroom filing cabinet,
- 14:03Speaker 1: where Eleanor's financial documents were kept and photographed them. Those
- 14:08Speaker 1: photographs were later recovered from his phone. The visit was coordinated,
- 14:14Speaker 1: the uniform was purchased in advance. The target was the
- 14:18Speaker 1: filing cabinet. But there is a second version, not careless
- 14:22Speaker 1: expansion of informal authority, but a structured operation. Christine inside
- 14:28Speaker 1: the house, controlling access and information, pell providing external operational support,
- 14:35Speaker 1: physical presence, document reconnaissance, The deliberate disposal of an address
- 14:39Speaker 1: book along a trail that had only been opened six days.
- 14:42Speaker 1: The nineteen thousand dollars moving in small, careful increments, the
- 14:47Speaker 1: forged or assisted signature on a sixty two thousand dollars CD,
- 14:52Speaker 1: the medications that increased confusion rather than relieved it. Ben Corcoran,
- 14:57Speaker 1: the forensic financial examiner, connected one more thread. He found
- 15:01Speaker 1: records of a caregiver in Delaware County working between two
- 15:05Speaker 1: thousand fifteen and twenty sixteen whose profile matched Christine Baker's.
- 15:11Speaker 1: Her name was Margaret Osay, She was seventy six. She
- 15:17Speaker 1: died in twenty sixteen. Her estate, when examined, was smaller
- 15:21Speaker 1: than anyone had anticipated. The Delaware County case was reopened
- 15:27Speaker 1: in March of two thousand nineteen. At the time the
- 15:30Speaker 1: documentary record closed, it remained ongoing. Christine Baker was arrested
- 15:36Speaker 1: on March twentieth of twenty nineteen at a Columbus motel
- 15:40Speaker 1: where she and Brandon Pell had been staying since leaving
- 15:44Speaker 1: Creekside Drive. She was charged with elder financial exploitation, forgery,
- 15:50Speaker 1: and unlawful access to financial accounts, seven counts in total.
- 15:54Speaker 1: Pell was charged as co conspirator. He pleaded to two
- 15:58Speaker 1: counts before trial and received reduced sentence. In October of
- 16:02Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, a Harlowe County jury convicted Christine Baker on
- 16:07Speaker 1: all seven counts. At trial, Christine described herself as a
- 16:10Speaker 1: devoted caregiver given informal authority. Physical evidence said otherwise, The
- 16:16Speaker 1: structured transfers said otherwise. The forged signature said otherwise. The
- 16:23Speaker 1: address book dry and uncreased in a culvert four miles
- 16:27Speaker 1: from Eleanor's kitchen, counter said otherwise. Most of all. Eleanor
- 16:32Speaker 1: Sharp moved in with her daughter, Gina in March of
- 16:35Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Within days, doctor Patricia Ends discontinued both medications
- 16:40Speaker 1: prescribed by the walk in clinic physician she discontinued them,
- 16:45Speaker 1: not because Eleanor had improved, but because neither drugs should
- 16:49Speaker 1: have been prescribed to her in the first place. Within
- 16:52Speaker 1: six weeks, Eleanor's nighttime confusion diminished significantly. The tremor in
- 16:57Speaker 1: her right hand remained, the word finding difficulty remained, but
- 17:01Speaker 1: the fog that had settled over her during the months
- 17:05Speaker 1: Christine Baker lived at Creekside Drive began to lift. Eleanor's
- 17:09Speaker 1: address book was returned to its place on the kitchen counter.
- 17:13Speaker 1: That detail matters more than it might seem. The address
- 17:16Speaker 1: book had forty seven years of handwritten contacts inside it.
- 17:21Speaker 1: It had penciled check marks next to Gina's name, next
- 17:24Speaker 1: to doctor Enz's name, next to a family friend. Those
- 17:28Speaker 1: check marks were not decoration. They were evidence of someone
- 17:32Speaker 1: who understood exactly what she needed and was trying to
- 17:35Speaker 1: reach it. Christine removed that book from Eleanor's counter, and
- 17:40Speaker 1: it ended up in a culvert four miles away, dry
- 17:43Speaker 1: and uncreased, on a trail that had only been opened
- 17:47Speaker 1: six days. It did not wander there. Someone carried it
- 17:50Speaker 1: there deliberately. That is what the conviction established, Not negligence,
- 17:55Speaker 1: not poor judgment, a deliberate, structured campaign. The seven counts
- 18:00Speaker 1: against Christine Baker covered elder financial exploitation, forgery, and unlawful
- 18:06Speaker 1: access to financial accounts. The jury in Harlowe County returned
- 18:11Speaker 1: guilty verdicts on every one of them in October of
- 18:14Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Brandon Pell, who had posed as an HVAC
- 18:19Speaker 1: technician to photograph financial documents from Eleanor's filing cabinet, pleaded
- 18:23Speaker 1: to two counts before trial and received a reduced sentence.
- 18:27Speaker 1: At her pre trial hearing, Christine described herself as a
- 18:31Speaker 1: devoted caregiver operating under informal authority. She called the financial
- 18:37Speaker 1: arrangement a practical matter that had not been formalized correctly.
- 18:41Speaker 1: She described the medications as compassionate. The structured transfers nineteen
- 18:46Speaker 1: thousand dollars moved in increments carefully kept below three thousand
- 18:50Speaker 1: dollars each were not consistent with informal and compassionate. The
- 18:55Speaker 1: forged signature on a sixty two thousand dollars certificate of
- 18:58Speaker 1: deposit was not consistent with informal and compassionate. The forensic
- 19:03Speaker 1: evidence was not consistent with any version of the story.
- 19:06Speaker 1: Christine offered Ben Corcoran's financial analysis had also surfaced the
- 19:12Speaker 1: name of Margaret Ossy. Ossy was seventy six years old.
- 19:16Speaker 1: She had lived in Delaware County between two thousand fifteen
- 19:21Speaker 1: and twenty sixteen. She had a caregiver whose profile matched
- 19:25Speaker 1: Christine Baker's. Margaret Osi died in two thy sixteen. Her estate,
- 19:31Speaker 1: when examined, was smaller than anyone who knew her had anticipated.
- 19:35Speaker 1: The Delaware County case was reopened in March of twenty nineteen.
- 19:40Speaker 1: At the time, the documentary record on this case closed,
- 19:43Speaker 1: that investigation remained ongoing. There is no resolution there yet,
- 19:48Speaker 1: that thread is still live. What Don Jones called caregiver
- 19:52Speaker 1: capture has a shape. Access comes first offered as help.
- 19:57Speaker 1: Dependency follows constructed care. Isolation is the third step. Each
- 20:03Speaker 1: barrier presented as protection. Control is the last step, and
- 20:08Speaker 1: by the time it arrives the person inside it may
- 20:12Speaker 1: not have the language, the contacts, or the clarity to
- 20:16Speaker 1: name what has happened to them. Eleanor Sharpe had all three.
- 20:20Speaker 1: She had word finding difficulty from a stroke. She had
- 20:23Speaker 1: a tremour that made signing documents difficult on her own.
- 20:27Speaker 1: She had a daughter who worked and trusted that a
- 20:29Speaker 1: licensed agency's placement was sound. Every one of those facts
- 20:33Speaker 1: was used. What makes this case difficult to set down
- 20:37Speaker 1: is not the financial figure, though nineteen thousand dollars from
- 20:41Speaker 1: a retired music teacher's checking account is not a small number.
- 20:45Speaker 1: It is not even the forged signature. It is the
- 20:48Speaker 1: address book. It is the image of an eighty one
- 20:51Speaker 1: year old woman who had spent forty seven years filling
- 20:55Speaker 1: that book with the names of people she loved and
- 20:57Speaker 1: who when she needed those people most reached for it
- 21:01Speaker 1: and found it gone, And when she finally spoke on
- 21:05Speaker 1: February nineteenth of twenty nineteen, the afternoon, Gina arrived and
- 21:11Speaker 1: found her alone and frightened. What she said was this,
- 21:15Speaker 1: She took my book. She said, I didn't need it
- 21:18Speaker 1: any more. She said it confused me. Eleanor knew, she
- 21:22Speaker 1: had known. She simply could not get to anyone who
- 21:25Speaker 1: could help her. The systems that were supposed to catch
- 21:28Speaker 1: this did not catch it in time. A patrolman returned
- 21:32Speaker 1: the address book to the caregiver without asking to see
- 21:35Speaker 1: Eleanor at the door. A November flag from Eleanor's physician
- 21:39Speaker 1: of eleven years was explained away a walk in clinic
- 21:42Speaker 1: wrote two prescriptions for a patient it had never treated,
- 21:46Speaker 1: and no one connected that visit to the household at
- 21:49Speaker 1: Creekside Drive until forensic review made the connection unavoidable. These
- 21:54Speaker 1: are not failures unique to Kellerton, Ohio. They are failures
- 21:58Speaker 1: of the ordinary kind, the kind that depend on no
- 22:01Speaker 1: one asking the next question. Don Jones, after Eleanor's case,
- 22:06Speaker 1: began consulting with County Adult Protective Services on caregiver vetting procedures.
- 22:12Speaker 1: She did not announce a solution. She described a problem
- 22:16Speaker 1: worth solving. That distinction is the honest one. Eleanor Sharp
- 22:20Speaker 1: is not defined by what was done to her. She
- 22:23Speaker 1: is a woman who played music for forty years, who
- 22:26Speaker 1: kept every name she valued in a burgundy leather book,
- 22:29Speaker 1: who checked off the people she trusted most when she
- 22:31Speaker 1: needed them. She found her way back to her daughter,
- 22:35Speaker 1: the book found its way back to the counter. Some
- 22:38Speaker 1: losses from those months cannot be recovered. The time cannot
- 22:42Speaker 1: be returned, the money was largely gone. But on a
- 22:46Speaker 1: Tuesday morning in the spring of two thousand nineteen, Eleanor
- 22:49Speaker 1: Sharp sat in Jina's kitchen and the book was open
- 22:52Speaker 1: in front of her and She knew every name inside it.
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