Johns, newfoundland and labrador, moore studied art at the nova scotia college of art and design. She tells the story in something approaching idiom. Caught was a finalist for the rogers writers trust fiction prize and the scotiabank giller prize and is now a major cbc television series starring allan hawco. It is clear universal modern english, with just a few tweaks of verbposition and missing preposition for you to create an accent around it starts off theres an alligator with its jaws open.
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