It happened 15 years ago, yet the memory sticks to me like cotton candy to a child’s hand. I still puzzle over it. Paducah, Kentucky, was a stop on a Mississippi riverboat cruise for which I had been hired as a storyteller.
Column: How do family heirlooms wind up in strangers’ hands?
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