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A Sleeve in the River Finds a Woman Lost for Years: The Dolores Vann Reunion
A Sleeve in the River Finds a Woman Lost for Years: The Dolores Vann Reunion
A waterlogged wool sleeve embroidered with "814 Meridian Street" drifted from a low January current into a fisherwoman's hand and led to a seventy-eight-year-old woman who had been living 38 miles away in a memory care facility for three years. How did a two-letter clerical error during a catastrophic flood erase Dolores Vann from every reunification roster and keep her from the granddaughter who searched 112 facilities?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the September 2018 flood that destroyed…
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