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A Child's Shoe Surfaces in a River: The Reunion of Gloria Allen
A Child's Shoe Surfaces in a River: The Reunion of Gloria Allen
Fear and hope collide in a single object: a white canvas child's shoe, size four, double-knotted and smelling faintly of cedar, pulled from the Hadder River before sunrise - clean as if kept, not washed. What could one shoe, logged and then forgotten for eleven days, do to undo sixteen years of separation and silence?
In this episode, we trace the path from a riverbank discovery to a woman who had been calling a resettlement database every Wednesday morning for more than five hundred weeks. We follow the parallel lives of a…
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