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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

After All These Years

something, anything, to prove he existed

Kevin Cullen (thanks, Mark): Fifty-nine years ago, Ginny Adams was 20 years old, pregnant, about to become a mother for the first time, but something went dreadfully wrong.



She went into the hospital and then she went into a coma and when she woke up a month later there was no baby by her side.



Instead, there was her husband, her first husband, and he said their baby boy was stillborn and he didn't want to talk about it anymore.



And so they didn't.

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