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The Library Slip That Reunited Siblings After 35 Years of Silence

The Library Slip That Reunited Siblings After 35 Years of Silence

A single handwritten library hold slip led to a 35-year silence ending: two people placed holds on the same privately printed family memoir, forty copies ever made, and one circulation supervisor made two phone calls that changed everything. How did a lost family history tucked on a lone shelf finally reconnect siblings who had been apart since 1984?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from a February morning in 2019 back through the Sheridans’ story in Coos Bay, Oregon, and into the small library decisions that…

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