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The Boy Who Came To His Mother's Wedding - But Wasn't Hers
The Boy Who Came To His Mother's Wedding - But Wasn't Hers
Fear that a single paper can undo a lifetime of silence: a water-streaked insert found in a drainage ditch in 2019 carried the name Thomas A. Finch - a name no one in Fenwick recognized - and it traced back to a sealed adoption kept hidden for fifty-eight years. How did a guest-book note, a family Bible entry, and seventeen letters from Terre Haute reveal a secret that sat inside a Pemberton Street house for decades?
In this episode, we follow the material trail left behind in Fenwick, Indiana: a road-grader operator’s find, eleven…
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