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The Ticket
The Ticket
The Ticket
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Flora Richmond announced to the school her pending retirement as a grade six teacher. On her way home that Friday, she made her usual stop at a local 7-Eleven to buy her weekly lotto 649 ticket. She used the same numbers each week, bought them from the same ticket seller, and on her way to her car she gave ten dollars to the same homeless man she had done so for the past year. She arrived home expecting the same Friday night ritual of pizza, some wine and movie with her husband. Between the time he arrived home with his own retirement plans, until ten days latter when she survived a gangland style shootout at an abandoned farm in Northern Ontario, her retirement life was permanently altered.
After her car—and a winning lottery ticket— is stolen, Flora, the ticket seller and the homeless man chase two car thieves from Toronto to North Bay. The thieves have complications of their own. And the homeless man and the ticket sellers have secrets of their own. Together they find adventure, friendship and even love.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherD.G. Marshall
Release dateDec 16, 2013
ISBN9780988159815
The Ticket
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D.G. Marshall

D.G. Marshall recently retired after a long career in education. He divides his time between Calgary, Alberta; Rutherglen, Ontario and various warm places in the winter. He has lived in four provinces, the NWT and St. Lucia in the Caribbean. He has been married to Sheila for 48 years and they have two sons and four grandchildren. He is an avid golfer, blues musician, motorcyclist and hiker.You can contact him through Talon Lake Presstalonlakepress@gmail.com

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