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

Together Again

if he couldn't have her, no one could

Erin Sullivan: HOLIDAY — He said he took the Greyhound from New York to be with her again. The small man with shaggy dark hair showed up at the beginning of the week.



Sarah Ann Capps introduced him as the father of her two children, which surprised neighbors in the four-unit complex on Golden Nugget Drive.



Capps moved in three months earlier and was personable. She borrowed sugar and a mop. She said she was 22 and working in telemarketing but hoped to go to culinary school.



The neighbors knew she had two cats and always left the house by 8:30 a.m. She loved babies but never mentioned her own — ages 4 and 5, who were in state custody — or their father, Thomas Cacacie, 26, who was…

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