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Son Recognizes His Mother's Handwriting on a Lost Sign: The Sarah Sheridan Reunion

Son Recognizes His Mother's Handwriting on a Lost Sign: The Sarah Sheridan Reunion

A dried cardboard protest sign travels four and a half miles overnight from an Orchard Street labor rally to a locked municipal yard, then is photographed at 2:10 a.m. on September 15, 2011 - and two days later a delivery driver in Pittsburgh recognizes the handwriting as his estranged mother's. What unspools from a snapped wooden stake and a marker’s strokes leads to a reunion rooted in handwriting, deafness, and years of missed connections - how did a simple sign become the bridge between them?

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