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The Forgotten Song That Reunited Two Women After Thirty-Two Years

The Forgotten Song That Reunited Two Women After Thirty-Two Years

A discarded cassette recorder with fresh batteries sat on a limestone shelf, its play button pressed and a sheet of handwritten lyrics beneath it - two languages and a melody that contained a tiny, unique ornament only two people ever sang the same way. Thirty-two years, changing surnames, a fifty-cent tape filed away for fifteen years, and a folk-collective catalog number would all conspire to answer one question: how did a single inflection bring two women back together?

In this episode, we follow the chain of objects and…

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