MacGregor's Final Battle
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Complete Fri, Oct 30, 20203h 23m
Donald MacGregor lost the two most important things in his life - his wife and his dog. Then he found out brain cancer was going to kill him very soon. Mac was a tough old Scot who would not go quietly. He started across country on a final adventure - a pilgrimage from Annapolis to Fairbanks. Along the way he met Kate, a disenchanted nurse practitioner who decided to join him because she needed a change of scenery.
A lot can happen when two people are stuck in a small RV for weeks on end.
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