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He’s Got a Ticket to Write or How a Late Train Produced a Novel
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The train Dominic Utton took to work broke down a lot. Each time it happened, he wrote to the railroad. They wrote back. And a novel was born.
Dominic Utton
Published
Apr. 24 2014
5:45AM EDT
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Dominic Utton
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