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The Birthday Cake on a Fifty-Year-Old Grave
The Birthday Cake on a Fifty-Year-Old Grave
A fourteen-year-old found a fogged bakery clamshell with blue frosting and the words "Happy Birthday, Little One" on a grave that had sat for over fifty years; the headstone named Nora Jean Farwell, who lived exactly zero days. Why was a fresh cake left on a fifty-year-old plot, and who arranged for a burial plot fourteen months before the child's birth?
In this episode, we follow how a photo posted by a paperboy set Cheryl Peterson on a three-week search through county deeds, a death certificate, a handwritten closet note, and family conversations…
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