Sid Gustafson

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It was not unusual at that manifest turn of the century for a child to spend the entire wind-driven day alone in front of the mercantile. Odd thing was, the child was white as the vanishing snow, white and left to fend the spring wind alone with nothing but the clothes on his back and a dog at his feet.

Sid Gustafson

Novelist and veterinarian.
New York Times writer.
Equine behaviour educator for the University of Guelph.