Big Trip, Taddle Creek, Summer 2007
... June thought of the nights just after her father had left, when she and her mother would sit huddled over an old school atlas, planning summer vacations they never took. They would trace the pink and yellow highways from London, around Lake Ontario, along the St. Lawrence, to Montreal, the most exotic Canadian destination they could imagine. They had even written to the chamber of commerce for city maps and tourist brochures. The big trip they would take one day, just the two of them....
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