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Dog Story
Part 2: For Seven Years, a Golden Retriever Rode the School Bus With Me Every Morning and Sat in My Seat Because I Cannot See Well Enough to Drive. When His Owner Died and the New Driver Banned Him From the Bus, I Did Not Yet Know That a Law Would One Day Put Him Back On It.
Part 2 I have to tell you how the dog came to be named Bus Driver, because the name tells…
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Part 2: Two Men Stopped Me on My Bicycle to Rob Me of the Jewelry in My Bag. I Put My Hands Up. Then the Twelve-Pound Dog Who Rides in My Bike Basket Did Something That Cost Me Eight Thousand Dollars — and Six Months Later, Put Both of Them in Court.
Part 2 I need to tell you how Karat came to me, because the how of it matters to the…
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Part 2: I Found a Starving Pit Bull on a Wisconsin Lakeshore and Took Him Home. Every Night at Eleven O’Clock, He Sat at the Door and Stared North for Two Hours. Eight Months Later, a Phone Call Told Me What He Was Looking At.
Part 2 I want to tell you about the eight months I had Lake before the phone call, because you…
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Part 2: An Old Dog at Our Shelter Carried the Same Toy to Every New Puppy, Then Walked Back to His Empty Kennel Alone. We Did Not Understand Why That Toy — Until We Found His Surrender Paperwork From Six Years Ago.
Part 2 I want to tell you exactly what Gunner did, because for six years we watched it and softened…
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My Father Has Advanced Alzheimer’s and No Longer Knows My Name, My Mother’s Name, or His Own. There Is Exactly One Word He Has Never Lost. The Night He Forgot Everything Else, That Word Walked Five Miles to Find Him.
Part 2 I need to tell you about Biscuit, and about how my father and Biscuit found each other, because…
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Part 2: An Eight-Year-Old Boy Was Lost in the Colorado Mountains for Eighteen Hours. The Search Dog Who Found Him Was Not a Search Dog at All — He Was My Rescue Pit Bull, and I Only Brought Him Because He Was Good With Kids.
Part 2 The missing boy’s name was Caleb Foss. He was eight years old. He was visiting the area with…
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Part 2: My Nine-Year-Old Daughter Has Down Syndrome and Ate Lunch Alone Every Day. Our New Golden Retriever Started Waiting at the School Gate for Her — and Did Not Miss a Single Afternoon, Even in the Worst Storm of the Year. I Found Out Why He Never Failed.
Part 2 I need to tell you how we got the dog, because the way we got the dog turns…
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Part 2: I Was Forty, Bald From Chemo, and Could Not Look at Myself in the Mirror. One Morning I Woke Up and My Golden Retriever Had Cleaned Every Strand of My Fallen Hair Off the Pillow. The Vet’s Explanation Made Me Cry Harder Than the Cancer Had.
Part 2 I need to tell you about Daisy before I tell you the rest, because Daisy is not an…
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Part 2: A Harley Rider Found a Puppy on I-40 at 3 a.m. — When He Knelt Down, He Realized Why It Wouldn’t Move
I got down that slope on my backside. Loose gravel. Wet mesquite. The kind of drop where a man my…
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Part 2: After My Father Died, His Old Dog Carried a Worn Blanket to the Door of the Empty Bedroom Every Single Night. I Thought He Was Grieving. Then I Found Out Where My Father Had Slept for the Last Eight Months of His Life.
Part 2 I want to tell you about my father, because you are going to need to know the kind…
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