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She Held a Painted City: How Gloria Outsmarted Her Captor
She Held a Painted City: How Gloria Outsmarted Her Captor
Cold, barefoot, and clutching a painted slab of drywall in eleven-degree air, sixty-one-year-old Gloria Thompson walked out of a ditch after nine days - but the most startling detail wasn't her rescue, it was the city she had lived inside: a floor-to-ceiling mural that she used to survive. How did a former records clerk map a fourteen-by-twelve room, count steps, and turn painted storefronts and street names into a lifeline that outwitted her captor?
In this episode, we tell the story of what happened between Gloria's disappearance on…
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