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The Girl on the Ferry will make you smile, sometimes laugh aloud, and occasionally suppress a tear or two. The main character and narrator is 97-year-old Freya Anna Bergman, a lesbian, who once was madly but secretly in love with her best friend Leslie. Unfortunately, Leslie fell in love with... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Freya Anna Bergman: Lesbian who narrates the history of her friends Leslie and Marshall. Although the tale is ostensibly about Leslie and Marshall, it is in reality, more about Freya and her perceptions of her friends the life the life they built together.
- Leslie ... God: The proverbial "Girl on the Ferry" who is "discovered" by Marshall. A wonderful, kind, and beautiful woman. She ultimately falls in love with Marshall.
- Marshall Eugene Davenport: Sees Leslie (and Freya) on the Ferry but approaches Leslie who he sees for what she is - beautiful, kind, loving, highly intelligent, everything he has been looking for in a woman. He falls in love with Leslie.
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- Margaret
- Douglas
- Alisa Elizabeth … Craig
- Alice
- Laura
- Anne
- Hilary Freya Patterson
- Catherine
- Elizabeth
- Howe
- Dr. Robert McHarg
- Geoffrey Edward Davenport
- Leslie Marie Davenport
- Eric
- Auntie Marcia
- Neville
- God Marshall
- St Mark
- Leslie Krueger
- Baby Geoffrey
- J. D. Reid
- McGill
- Guildenstern
Setting & Locations edit
- Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Wolfe Island . Includes sailing about the 1000 Islands
- Niagara-on-the-lake: Relocate to NOTL - emphasis on theater and wine.
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