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Just days after registering to run for another term, Toronto-Danforth Coun. Paula Fletcher announced she’s retiring from politics and withdrawing her name from the upcoming race.

Fletcher has served on city council for 23 years and told Global News she has never entered her nomination papers early. But she said she got a little excited after returning from vacation and put her name up for another four years.

Wednesday morning however, she said she had a “come to Jesus moment” while on her paddleboard on Lake Ontario.

That’s when she decided it was time to call it a career.

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