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A Badge in the Gravel Reunites Mother and Son: The Calloway Center Case

A Badge in the Gravel Reunites Mother and Son: The Calloway Center Case

A laminated employee badge, stamped 1993 and found pristine in gravel, led to a secret kept for 26 years and the possibility of an impossible reunion. How did a badge left outside an office in Dellwood, Ohio, end up reconnecting a mother who had registered with a reunion service and a son working two floors below her without either knowing?

In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of discoveries - from a retired hygienist finding the badge to a teenager uncovering a shoebox in a closet - and how those small details…

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