Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

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“Evelyn, please,” I said. “Do you remember a Mary working at the plant in 1937?”

Evelyn clasped her hands tightly in her lap, her fingers locking together over her handbag.

“You are digging in places you do not belong, Martha,” she said.

“My grandfather’s journal says he didn’t write the name,” I said. “He said it was Mary’s word.”

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