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PoindexterOglethorpe

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8. I got it from my library.

Sun Oct 10, 2021, 04:06 PM

Oct 2021

He's shown just as Richard Beard on the book.

I also recently read The Day That Went Missing by him, about the drowning death of his younger brother. It was so traumatic that the family essentially never talked about it or even that brother for decades after. Beard decided he had to recapture what happened. A very moving and disturbing book.

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