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The Library Book That Saved a Man: Found in a Cottonwood Fork

The Library Book That Saved a Man: Found in a Cottonwood Fork

Fear and relief collide: a library book wedged nine feet up in a cottonwood fork, sealed in a zip-lock bag with a ten-digit phone number on white athletic tape, led to a man found alive after twelve days missing - but who threaded the book through a pump station ventilation slit and why?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the morning a bird photographer discovered the book to the four-hour rescue that followed, outlining how small tools, routine habits, and a dated library due date became the clues that answered…

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