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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Faith A. Colburn My mother told me a story about my "maiden" aunt Nina--my father's sister. We all lived in rural Nebraska and Nina had barely left the farm--in her whole life.

It seems that Nina earned a private detectives license and then looked up some guy in Chicago. She wanted to meet with him, so she asked Mom to go along with her. The two women went to an address in Chicago where a woman answered the door. A man was coming down the stairs behind her. Nina looked up at the man, then back at the woman. "I'm sorry," she said. "I have the wrong house." They walked back to the car, got in, and drove off. Nina never looked again.

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