Home renovation reveals surprising photo under the floor: ‘Hey, that’s my mom’

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A contractor recovered a 1946 paper that featured an nonfiction astir the homeowner’s precocious mom, who had nary ties to the house.

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The beforehand leafage of the Fargo Forum that Casey Chapman's contractor recovered during location renovations. Chapman's mother, Marty Anderson, is connected the acold right. (Casey Chapman)

A carpenter slid a paper betwixt the floorboards during a location renovation successful the 1940s — past a communal hole for uneven planks. About 80 years later, different renovation astatine the location successful Fargo, North Dakota, revealed the brittle pages, inactive wedged beneath the wood.