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Broken Threads At Camden Home In 1898
In October 1898 at the Elwells home in Camdenville Indiana Martha Dalton nurses a fainting woman aboard a train. The woman dies after giving birth to twin girls Margeret and Elizabeth adopted by the Elwells as Rusty and Betty. Twenty years later Jim Elwell serves in a war and falls for one twin while serving in a machine gun unit at Sedan. He is shell shocked and registered as John Powell, prompting a hospital reveal of a mistaken identity by Powell’s mother and fiancee. The chapter opens with the supervisor addressing the error.
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Mollie Elwell
Camdenville
Ind
Martha Dalton
Martha
Elwell
Rusty
Betty
Jim Elwell
Ile
Sedan
John Powell
Powell
Jim
Mollie
France
Prof
Chicago
Nina Kingsley
New York
Dame Destiny