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Two sisters lived four blocks apart for eleven years and never knew it
Two sisters lived four blocks apart for eleven years and never knew it
A single photograph wedged behind a water pipe in a Creel Street garage led to an impossible reunion: two sisters, separated by a civil war and a clerical error, had lived four blocks apart in Harlan County for eleven years without knowing it. How did a museum-quality coincidence - a dead civic photographer's image and a case number kept in a kitchen drawer for decades - finally close a twenty-five year gap?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning a well inspector found the photograph to the family…
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