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15 December 2012

COOGAN story 

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appearing in "Helena Independent" (11 DEC 1932, Page 1):

OLD COUPLE, DIVORCED 28 YEARS AGO, ARE TO REWED

Butte, Dec. 10 - (AP) - A romance recalling fiction was revealed here
today as Maggie O'Day, 67, a resident of the county hospital, made
plans to go to New York to remarry Charlie Coogan, from whom she was
divorced 28 years ago.

Each has remarried twice in the interim, but Miss O'Day's last husband
left her several years ago and five years ago she found herself
penniless and infirm.

When Coogan's last wife died several years ago in New York he set about
to find his first love, Maggie O'Brien.

Letters written to Maggie O'Brien and Maggie Coogan were returned from
Butte, unanswered.  Meanwhile, Mrs. O'Day was thinking of her first
sweetheart, and one day recently she timidly asked at the post office
for mail under her maiden name.

A letter was there and it was from Charlie Coogan.  He had grown old
and lonely and his three grown children had gone out into the world.
Also, he had saved enough money to keep two comfortably.

Mrs. O'Day immediately answered her old lover's letter and he sent
funds for her fare to New York, where Coogan soon will be pensioned
by a railway company.

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