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The Woman Sewing an Address: How a Wrong Number Kept Them Apart
The Woman Sewing an Address: How a Wrong Number Kept Them Apart
A single wrong phone number and a state database error kept a mother and daughter apart for more than a year, while a woman sewed her daughter’s name and address into a nightgown sleeve to be found. What happened in the Millhaven relief camp when Frank Mueller spotted Loretta Vance sewing an address onto her own cuff - and why did that stitched message go unread for so long?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the October 2015 Soline River flood to the January 2019 morning when a passerby noticed the stitched sleeve…
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