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- I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the…
- Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something…
- The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
- There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in…
- But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave…
- Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are…
- The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing…
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