On July 2, 1966 a woman named Maude wrote a postcard to a couple in New York state. More than fifty-five years later it found its way into the hands of DanOCan and started him unraveling a mystery that spans all the way to Alaska. The epicentre of this mystery is in Medicine Hat, Alberta and a classic motel…
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You should have asked this Buffalo gal how to pronounce Olean. Yes,you pronounced it correctly. I believe one of our former pastors was transferred to Olean and that my parents perhaps knew people who lived there. This probably would have been a bit earlier in the 60’s.
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