A couple of months ago, I wrote a column about an artifact I found at a local antiques shop, which appeared to belong to a Missouri man still living.

On Nov. 1, that man received a package in the mail and held in his hands the baby book his mother had so lovingly crafted almost 79 years ago.

“I was just amazed,” Rufus Stephen Grace said when he called me a few hours later. “It was very interesting.”

After the column appeared in The Sun on Sept. 13, some readers contacted me with tips on how to find him. One person even supplied a phone number, but it wasn’t his, at least not currently.

As the book remained on my desk, it seemed to be reproaching me to try harder. That’s when I had the idea of contacting a paper in Grace’s hometown of Springfield, Mo.

Thus it was that on Nov. 1 Grace’s

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