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movies and music, and the Toss of
local boys killed in action. In
the heartbreaking conclusion just
before her father's death, she writes:
"One day while home on holiday I
went with him on a drive to the
country to see a patient. Dad was
unusually quiet as we drove along the
familiar roads where every mailbox
bore a friend's name. Grain was
ripening in the fields and the breeze
coming in the windows was fragrant
and warm. Suddenly he said
sadly, "I haven't done much with my
life'."
Perhaps the real truth of this book
is that all rural people are vital
presences, and that even a
deceptively simple life can alter
circumstance for the betterment of
others — especially as in this case, by
the healing hands of a kind country
doctor.°
Thirty Years on Call — A Country
Doctor's Family Life, Pennington.
Doris, The Brucedale Press, Port
Elgin, 2001; ISBN 1-896922-14-7
$18.95 Softcover, 186 pgs.
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