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Opinion: When Ylva Hagner vanished without a trace

Classmate recalls disappearance of Swedish woman, whose cold case investigation reopened this week with an FBI raid on a Redwood City home

by Sheryl Nonnenberg

On the 25th of September 1996, the fifth class of the Master of Liberal Arts Program met in the History Building on the Main Quad at Stanford University. We were a disparate group; there was a physician, a librarian, a biology teacher and a few stay-at-home moms like myself, all eager to return to school as adults purely for the joy of learning. We ranged in age from mid-20s to the 70s, and many of us had not entered a classroom in decades.

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Posted by Mary Cafiero
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on May 15, 2023 at 10:46 am

Mary Cafiero is a registered user.

Thank you, Cheryl, for this sensitive and beautifully written article. Mary Cafiero


Posted by Mary Cafiero
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on May 15, 2023 at 10:49 am

Mary Cafiero is a registered user.

Sorry, I meant Sheryl!


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