Scan De Jour 12/31/21
This was the entrance to our next door neighbour's house when we lived in Rosedale in Gord Lighfoot's coach house. The guy's name was Hugh. He had a lot of cats, and during the three years we lived there, he served 18 months in prison for some white collar crime he committed. He was a pretty cool guy, albeit a bit strange with all the cats.
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Jim Murray · I have finally been able to convert my stories into into PDF files which makes them easily readable on iPads and other hand held devices.If you‘d like to have any or all of these stories emailed to you, just email me at onandup3@gmail.com and I will send them to youYou can find d ...
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