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Linda is my sister. I was 4 years old the day of the fire (I turned 5 on December 4, 1958. My mother told me Linda was helping to plan a party for me -- instead, she was buried on my 5th birthday. This event changed our family life forever. I have no conscious memory of the day, I think I blocked it out. All I know of that day is what I heard from my family and what I've read. My brother Jerry was also in the fire but he got out. He never got over the horror of that day. My mother still cries when she thinks about that terrible day, even 47 years later. I often wonder how different my family would have been, if not for this tragedy. I wish my sister didn't die! I wish my brother didn't have to experience such a tragedy. December 1, 1958 changed our family, so many families, forever.
-- (Patricia Malinski-Zimmerman, Sister)
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