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| | TIME.com: One Changed His Mind -- Nov. 2, 1953 -- Page 1 |
 | | In a three-room cabin clinging to the side of Powell Mountain in Cracker's Neck, Va., Bessie Dickenson sat at her quilting one night last week while her husband, Van Buren ("Dave") Dickenson, gaunt and sick at 72, listened to the radio. |
 | | Just a few hours before, their son, Corporal Edward S. Dickenson, 23, with the loose-jointed amble of a mountain man, had passed through a gauntlet of curious eyes at Panmunjom, to be handed over to the U.N. command. |
 | | I just know it ain't him." Dave Dickenson came in from the yard and peered over her shoulder. |
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