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The Missing Name: The Rabbit, The Letter, The Hidden Draper
The Missing Name: The Rabbit, The Letter, The Hidden Draper
A gray-white cloth rabbit with one button eye missing tied two families together across four blocks in a small Pennsylvania town - and a single circled line on a 1941 immigration manifest finally surfaced in a town annex in 2003. What did that circled "M. Draper, age one, sex female" mean, and why had a two-page Polish letter never been answered?
In this episode, we follow the lives recorded in probate files, an immigration manifest, and a donated box of family papers to trace how a name was quietly removed from one family and…
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