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The Box on the Wellhouse: Grandma's Letters That Hid a Sister
The Box on the Wellhouse: Grandma's Letters That Hid a Sister
The discovery of a dry cardboard box on a soaked property revealed 40-60 handwritten letters dated 1953-1971, signed by Lottie Marsh and addressed to Gina Bailey-letters that mentioned a sister no one in the family knew existed. How did decades of careful secrecy, a Nashville visit for a "medical matter," and a single line about "the baby" hide a truth that only a found box could expose?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events that led Beverly Dempsey to those letters, what the pages disclose about Lottie Ferrand's past…
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