Dorothy Bashore's Life

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On Saturday March 1, 1952 was the day that Dorothy Bashore was born. She was born on the second floor of her house in Bernville. Dorothy lived in three houses but they were all Bernville. the one house were called a “haunted house”, it use to be an old hat factory but was changed into a house, They called it haunted because an man killed himself on the third floor. The house had a long hallway on one of the sides was a big room. At the end of the hall up the stairs there was the living room and kitchen, at the top of the steps on the left was a bedroom. Then go up more steps there is a bedroom and a bathroom, The bedroom on the left had an attic door. Walk up the steps, at the top on the left was an unfinished room, where the man killed

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