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In 1939, James F. Sarsfield, a plumber at the Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s School in Normal, Illinois, left for the New York World’s Fair and never returned. In this episode of A Normal Disappearance, hosts Andrea Munday, “Aunt Sissy\", and her teenage nieces, Finley & Piper, introduce James’s case and their family’s special connection to the orphanage.

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