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This is my mom in 1949. When she was 7, her family moved out into the country. On the first day at her new school, she took the wrong school bus home and got lost overnight. More than 1,000 volunteers combed the woods and surroundings looking for her. A fireman named Richard Gardner found her chilled, scratched and hungry the next day. Many years later, Mom named her first born son Richard after the man who rescued her.

The story made the national news. I tucked an old clipping from the Washington Post under her photo and scanned the full story from another newspaper and put it on the back. I interviewed my mom about this adventure last week and typed it here next to her photo.

Paper and embellies are Cosmo Cricket, Crate and October Afternoon.


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