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The Sponge on the Fence That Reunited a Lost Daughter

The Sponge on the Fence That Reunited a Lost Daughter

A surgical sponge, upright on a rusted fence post, carried a yellowed peel-pack labeled "MCA - 11/14 - B neg" and was eighteen years old when a county surveyor found it on November 19, 2019. That single object completed a chain that DNA labs, a private investigator, and four years of searching had failed to close - how did a piece of gauze become the bridge between two lives?

In this episode, you will hear how routine paperwork, a workplace blood drive, and a pilot crossmatch program intersected with one woman’s quiet search for her birth…

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