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It was the perfect ensemble, a pale green chiffon frog, little silver healed

slipper with stockings to match. It was anime die-tritch's first dance,

and she wanted it to be a night to remember. A carpenter that worked around the

millenary had asked her to go with her to a banquet that was being held by the

Delaware County Real Estate Board. They had gone out a few times to the

park, as well as for the movies. So when he asked her to the banquet, she was

ecstatic. The morning of January 19th, Anna was getting ready for work. Her

sister gave her $75 and told her that she would meet her later to help her

shop for her dress. Anna took her normal way to work. She walked to the west

Philadelphia station and boarded a train to Germantown. Anna sat with an

acquaintance, named Bennett J. Gleason. They met on a rainy morning, four months

prior at the train station, when she came in to get some medication for a headache,

and they noticed they rode the same train every day and started a friendship.

One of the common topics they discussed was Anna's ambition to learn how to dance.

Gleason had offered to teach her, saying he could meet her at her home that she

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