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In 1955, a boy found an infant in the woods. This is the true story of their reunion 49 years later.
Outskirts Press Announces the Release of Captivating New Book:
Found Twice—The Search for Baby Roseann, by Gaile Hickman
November 21, 2015 – Denver, CO and Knoxville, TN – Gaile Hickman’s new book, Found Twice—The Search for Baby Roseann, is the true story of her husband’s decades-long search and emotional reunion with the abandoned baby he found in the woods of Indiana in 1955 when he was just 14 years old. The novel has been published by Outskirts Press.
After a day of squirrel hunting not far from his home in Richmond, Indiana, 14-year-old Dave Hickman sat along a country road skinning his catches with his grandfather when he heard an unusual sound coming from the woods. Feeling something was very wrong Dave walked about 70-75 yards before climbing a fence post to go into the woods. Looking down before he jumped, expecting to find an animal, Dave was instead astonished to find a tiny, dark-haired infant girl whose lips, hands and feet had turned blue. Wrapped in a towel, discarded like trash, infested with maggots, and hidden deeply in the weeds, she had been left to suffer a cruel death.
Social workers called the baby Roseann, and she was adopted a few months later. But Dave was never able to put Baby Roseann out of his mind. For 49 years, Gaile Hickman had seen the ache in her husband’s eyes, the despair in his soul. What had happened to the infant girl he’d found cruelly abandoned in a freezing field?
Found Twice tells of Dave’s decades-long search for Baby Roseann, intertwined with the story of his personal life—the struggles of a family faced with autism, poverty, divorce, and sacrifices made for the sake of survival during the Great Depression of 1929. It is also a compelling story of love—love of a 14-year-old hunter for an abandoned baby; love between grandparents and their grandson; the love of friends who joined the long search for the infant lost in bureaucratic secrecy, and the love of a wife for her husband. As the chapters of this many-faceted jewel are unveiled, readers experience the love of God for them all.
CBS’s This Morning Show broadcast the emotional reunion between Dave Hickman and Ellen (Baby Roseann) on May 4, 2014, when, after months of emails and weekly phone conversations, the two met face-to-face in Richmond, Indiana. “If he hadn’t found me, I would have died,” Ellen said.
“I was guided there by the grace of God,” Dave says now. “For 58 years, I worried about this little baby. It’s like a fairy tale with a very bad beginning and a wonderful end.”
Found Twice—The Search for Baby Roseann is available online through Outskirts Press at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore. The book is sold through Amazon and Barnes and Noble for a maximum trade discount in quantities of 10 or more, and is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the nonfiction / religious category.
ISBN: 978-1-4787-6200-3 Format: 5 x 8 paperback white Retail: $11.95
Genre: NONFICTION / Religious / Inspirational
For more information, visit the author’s website at www.foundtwice.com or email her at 55foundtwice@gmail.com.
About the Author: Gaile Hickman lives in Vonore, Tennessee, with her husband, Dave.
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