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1 story matching slender
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:lender, sender, slander, spender, sler, ender
- The Secret Benefactor of a Struggling Seattle Teacher
A modest schoolteacher discovers that her late aunt, a wealthy woman she hardly knew, had been paying her bills in secret long before the surprising terms of her will were revealed.