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    Leaky Pipes
    Leaky Pipes
    Leaky Pipes
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    Leaky Pipes

    By Barry Rachin

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    Bartholomew Schroeder, a recent widower and retired plumber, can sweat pipes and fix broken toilets. But on a weekend excursion to Martha's Vineyard, can he mend a teenage girl's broken spirit?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateOct 18, 2019
    ISBN9781465962430
    Leaky Pipes
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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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      Leaky Pipes - Barry Rachin

      Leaky Pipes

      Barry Rachin

      Published by Barry Rachin, 2019.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      LEAKY PIPES

      First edition. October 18, 2019.

      Copyright © 2019 Barry Rachin.

      ISBN: 978-1465962430

      Written by Barry Rachin.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

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      Leaky Pipes

      Leaky Pipes

      by

      Barry Rachin

      BARTHOLOMEW SCHROEDER watched the girl approach from the entrance to the hotel dining room. In her late teens, she was about the same age as his youngest granddaughter. My name, she stumbled over the words, which sounded stilted and rehearsed, is Holly Heatherton, and my family came over Monday on the same ferry from Woods Hole.

      Yes, I remember -

      No, don’t speak! She waved a hand distractedly and, for a brief moment, Bart thought the girl might do something outlandish. He once watched a woman dancing with her husband at a wedding. The woman was quite drunk. The husband said something disagreeable and the woman pulled her slinky black evening dress up over her head, revealing a dainty white camisole and a pair of control-top nylons. Not that he thought Holly Heatherton was inclined to make a similar scene, but the girl was noticeably agitated, distraught.

      I dreamed about you last night. The girl moistened her lips

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