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by John » Thu Jun 23, 2022 06:14 pm
I've used that. A few years back, I found an old college textbook, about 100 years old, and it had a lady's name in it, with the date about that time. Along with this, she'd written her prospective married name, practicing it several times. I knew she had to be long gone if not 120 years old but I became curious and started searching the internet to see if I could find anything out about her. I was surprised at how much I found. She grew up in Sedalia. Her family ran a local lumberyard. After college she moved to Kansas City. Sometime in her 20s, she was hit by a car crossing a street, and was killed. Such a promising life cut so short, and sure enough, there was her grave. It's a weird and sad feeling looking at her 100 year old handwriting, then realizing how it all ended just a few years later. John