One morning Harry’s mother took him to a new church school. “When I was about six or seven years old,” he later wrote in a diary, “my mother took me to Sunday School and I saw there the prettiest sweetheart little girl I’d ever seen . . . She had tanned skin, blond hair, golden as sunshine, and the most beautiful blue eyes.” Her name was Elizabeth “Bess” Wallace. Her family lived at 608 North Delaware, in a fashionable house with a cupola and a broad porch. The Wallaces were different from the Trumans, who were farm people. Bess Wallace’s father, David, was a prominent town figure, “the most
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