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

Sarah Bates My mother ran off with a cowboy when my sister and I were toddlers. Although our father raised us to become educated and confident women, I always wondered why their marriage broke up. We were forbidden to contact her as children so this mystery continues to trouble me.

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