Thursday, October 10, 2024

The Perils of Pauline | M.P. Pellicer

The year is 1940, the place is Rockland, Maine and one day Alzada Pauline Young, who is only 16 years old, inexplicably disappears on Halloween Day, and despite an intensive search for her she is not found, until one day.


The Phelps family lived in a duplex on 28 Crescent Street. Thelma Phelps, the mother had two children by a prior marriage, Pauline age 16, and Evangeline age 13 who lived at the Pownal State School, where children with disabilities or behavior problems were institutionalized. She had married John Phelps, a man 20 years her senior, and had two children with him, Rachael age 11 and Bernard age 9.





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