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Uncle Ronald

Author(s): Brian Doyle

Location(s): Ottawa

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): early 20th century

Old Mickey is one hundred and twelve years old. He can’t remember what he ate for lunch today, but he can remember every detail of what happened one hundred years ago, when he and his mother ran away from his violent father to take refuge in the hills north of Ottawa.

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