A Child's Shoe Surfaces in a River: The Reunion of Gloria Allen
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A Child's Shoe Surfaces in a River: The Reunion of Gloria Allen
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Fear and hope collide in a single object: a white canvas child's shoe, size four, double-knotted and smelling faintly of cedar, pulled from the Hadder River before sunrise - clean as if kept, not washed. What could one shoe, logged and then forgotten for eleven days, do to undo sixteen years of separation and silence?
In this episode, we trace the path from a riverbank discovery to a woman who had been calling a resettlement database every Wednesday morning for more than five hundred weeks. We follow the parallel lives of a mother and a girl who were separated in an ambush, lived in different continents and neighborhoods, and ask how a misheard name and a missed log entry shaped a reunion that neither system recorded.
Person: Gloria Ndiaye (later Gloria Allen)
Person: Adaeze Ndiaye (registered as Ada Morrow, later Ada Morrow)
Date: October 8, 2009 (shoe found); summer 1993 (separation); 1997-1998 (Gloria arrives in U.S., settles in Portsmith)
Location: Hadder River south bank; Portsmith, Tennessee (Barrow Avenue, Coles Avenue, Briar neighborhood)
Event: Shoe logged as "Found property, child's shoe, left foot" and left unphotographed for 11 days
- The shoe was found at 5:45 a.m. on October 8, 2009, by Melissa West on the Hadder River south bank.
- The shoe is described as white canvas with a faded pink stripe, American size four, with laces double-knotted.
- Vic Harmon, a Portsmith PD property clerk, logged the shoe and left it untouched on his desk for 11 days.
- Gloria began calling the Atlanta refugee resettlement database every Wednesday at 5:45 a.m. since 1998, making more than 500 calls by October 2009.
- Ada was registered at a camp in 1993 as approximately age four under the name Adaeze Ndiaye, later recorded in 1994 as "Ada Morrow," and by 1996 was living with the Morrow family in Knoxville.
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