Tom Culligan (born 1945) is a

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entrepreneur and author. Culligan was born in

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. In 1975 Culligan teamed up with

Frank O'Dea Francis O’Dea, OC (born 1945 in Montreal) is a Canadian entrepreneur, humanitarian and author. He left a lifestyle of homeless panhandling and in 1975 co-founded the Second Cup chain of coffee stores with Tom Culligan. He is currently the Cha ...

to found the

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chain of coffee shops. He eventually bought out O'Dea and then after building it to a 150-store chain, sold the business in 1988 to Michael Bregman, the founder of MMMarvelous Muffins. Culligan has a degree in theology and philosophy from the

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. In September 2002 he self-published his book ''Teacups & Sticky Buns''. He currently devotes himself full-time to painting and writing dividing his time between a cottage in the

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, his family's homestead built in 1824 on

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in northern New Brunswick, and a winter home in Florida with his partner Paul Menard.

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Writers from Dayton, Ohio