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How the Internet solved a 20 year mystery…

Found this article by Alex Goldman over at Slate magazine and it involves the above, a mystery “code” written by a “non-communicative” grandmother on index cards shortly before she passed away.

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The mystery of what the Grandmother wrote on these index cards lasted 20 years…and was solved in a matter of 14 minutes after a relative posted a query asking for help figuring this out on Metafiler!

Read the whole thing here:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/01/21/ask-metafilter-a-decades-long-mystery-over-a-series-of-index-cards-with.html

The Metafiler link, which shows the very quick process of solving this mystery, is presented below:

http://ask.metafilter.com/255675/Decoding-cancer-addled-ramblings

A fascinating story, and I’m glad the family has closure on what their relative was trying to “say”.