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The Shoe at the Grave: My Mother's Secret Twin Revealed
The Shoe at the Grave: My Mother's Secret Twin Revealed
A dry white child's shoe sat unmoved on a cemetery fence through two weeks of marsh flooding - and the nearby headstone read "INFANT DAUGHTER OF D. AND L. WAGNER - JULY NINETEEN, NINETEEN EIGHTY-NINE." How did a shoe, a one-month lease to Tucson dated August 1989, and an obituary for an Andrea Mueller-Wagner lead a 24-year-old Patricia Wagner to reopen a silence that had lasted twenty-eight years?
In this episode, we follow the moments that connect a found shoe, a stack of birth congratulation cards and an obituary clipping to a family…
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