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A Stranger Finds Her Shoe and Calls Her Mother Home: The Petra Schmidt Reunion
A Stranger Finds Her Shoe and Calls Her Mother Home: The Petra Schmidt Reunion
A single pink sneaker on the shoulder of Route 9 in Millhaven with a name and a Milwaukee area code started a twenty-two year reunion nobody would have predicted. The shoe led a snowplow operator to call a number that connected a stranger to a woman who had been searching for a daughter lost in an October 1988 hurricane - but how did a sewn phone number end up on a shoe found in February 2011?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that link a relief camp ledger entry from November 1988, a graduate…
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