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A Stranger's Blood Carries a Mother Home: The Sandra Holt Reunion
A Stranger's Blood Carries a Mother Home: The Sandra Holt Reunion
A single line in an adoption file - "the mother had not survived the delivery" - convinced Sandra Holt for twenty-two years that the woman who birthed her was dead. A faded white bassinet found in a storage unit and a rare blood type registered in a reunion database would eventually reveal that the record was wrong; how did a wrong sentence erase an entire reunion for decades?
In this episode, we follow the chain of small, exact details that connected a fourth-grade teacher who logged every insulin dose for her cat with a…
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