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She spent several days a week searching before she finally found him Nov. 13 near Sauk Centre.

His father was a prominent doctor in Sauk Centre, a town of about 2,800 — read all about it in “Main Street.”

Both “Main Street”’s Gopher Prairie, the small town that is the stand-in for Sauk Centre, Minn., where Lewis grew up, and Zenith, the medium-size city where Babbitt conducts his prosperous realty business, are meticulously and convincingly anatomized: Lewis always got the details right.

Ulrika Wigert, a family practice physician who has worked at CentraCare — Sauk Centre for 19 years, said the last six weeks have been “just unprecedented from anything we’ve had to deal with in medicine before this point.”

Pavelich, who set up the United States’ winning goal in the “Miracle on Ice” upset of the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics, was receiving mental health treatment at Eagle’s Healing Nest, a rehabilitation center in a wooded part of Sauk Centre, Minn., where he had been living since October.