A mourning dove calls as he tells the story, seated on a wicker chair on a porch outside his home on Waverly Road. It isn’t an easy story. Shehan, now 73, was placed in an orphanage with his brother and sister after their parents divorced when he was a year old. His brother, who was older, was adopted. His little sister, Mary Jane, died in 1951 at age 10.
Shehan remembered the open coffin, her pigtails and her blue dress. He remembered the cemetery was on a hill outside the town where his father was from, Erwin, Tenn. Those were memories that didn’t lend themselves to casual conversation. “Sad memories,” he said...
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