Copyright © Keith Maillard 2006

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Originally published by Brindle & Glass Publishing Ltd. in 2006
with ISBN 978-1-897142-07-3.

This electronic edition was released in 2011.
e-pub ISBN: 978-1-897142-74-5
e-pdf ISBN: 978-1-897142-73-0

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Cover photography: Mary Maillard; Model: Tessa Maria Maud Schick
Author photo: Mary Maillard

Acknowledgements: The story that Natalie reads to John is Frank R. Stockton’s The
Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885). The opening line is quoted.

Brindle & Glass Publishing acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for our publishing program.

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

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