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    Minnie Parker's Third Offense
    Minnie Parker's Third Offense
    Minnie Parker's Third Offense
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    Minnie Parker's Third Offense

    By Barry Rachin

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    Seventy-two year-old Minnie Parker needs some counterfeit documents – a social security card, birth certificate, bogus health and high school records from a school she never attended. But not to worry. It’s all for a good cause.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateJun 13, 2019
    ISBN9780463983355
    Minnie Parker's Third Offense
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    Barry Rachin

    About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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      Minnie Parker's Third Offense - Barry Rachin

      Minnie Parker’s Third Offense

      By Barry Rachin

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      Copyright © 2019 by Barry Rachin

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This short story represents a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Minnie Parker’s Third Offense

      Minnie Parker rode the elevator to the third floor of the county court house and went directly to the attorney general’s office. I need to speak with Joshua Parker.

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