202:" Rinaldi found a leather-bound scrapbook of Margaret's in a dumpster in San Francisco. He kept the scrapbook for many years and decided the best way to preserve Margaret's memory was to create a show about her, after which the audience would take pieces of the scrapbook with them, since he did not want the scrapbook to end up in another dumpster.
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More tragedy would occur in the family. On the 21st of April, 1950, while having coffee after dinner one evening in their
Burbank home, Justus pulled out a pistol and killed himself. Margaret, the only witness, was 43 years old at the time. Eerily, it seemed that her poem “Two Deaths,” written while
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Everett and asked about the Rucker family, noticing that there were buildings, streets, and public spaces in the town named after them. Webley took Palmer to see the Rucker mausoleum in the Everett cemetery. The next day, Palmer and Webley went in San Francisco, where Webley met with Rinaldi.
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