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Taking Lottie Home: A Novel

by Terry Kay

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When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway -- a girl-woman named Lottie Parker -- on the train that takes them from Augusta, Georgia, and away from their dreams of greatness. Foster will marry her and father her son. Ben will escort her home. And Lottie will change the lives of everyone she meets, from the day she runs away until she finally finds the place where she belongs.… (more)
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1904 Ben was released from pro baseball, got a job at small store. Lottie, a runnaway had met him on the train. Their lives crossed paths and he swore to her husband before he died he would "take Lottie home." Her son was named little Ben and Big Ben's mother fell in love with him. She ended up taking the train back to the town where Ben was marrying Sally and had a man take him to the church to see Margaret, Ben's mom. She then continued on on the train, never to see her son again. ( )
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I cannot say, as fact, this is what happened, or how it happened, yet it is, I believe, fairly close to the truth - truth being what it is, a piecemeal kind of thing best told with enough stretch in it to fit more than one certainty.
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When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway -- a girl-woman named Lottie Parker -- on the train that takes them from Augusta, Georgia, and away from their dreams of greatness. Foster will marry her and father her son. Ben will escort her home. And Lottie will change the lives of everyone she meets, from the day she runs away until she finally finds the place where she belongs.

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