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Copyright © 2018. Bill Stenson. All Rights Reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher—or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from Access Copyright, the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, info@accesscopyright.ca—is an infringement of the copyright law.

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

Book design by Mark Hand
Typefaces used are New Baskerville and Helvetica.
Cover Photo: Thank-you to the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History & partnering
museum/society for use of the photo #0039.0337: Victoria Ave, Fernie BC 1961.
Inside photo: Shutterstock
Printed on Antique Natural, 100% recycled
Printed and bound in Canada.

Mother Tongue Publishing gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Province of British Columbia through the B.C. Arts Council and we acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.
Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada, qui a investi 157$ millions de dollars l’an dernier dans les lettres et l’édition à travers le Canada.

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

Stenson, Bill, 1949-, author

Ordinary strangers / Bill Stenson.

ISBN 978-1-896949-70-3 (softcover)
ISBN 978-1-896949-71-0 (Epub)

I. Title.

PS8637.T47O73 2018C813’.6C2018-903680-X