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- Sep 2015
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“I’m not letting it, that’s why,” I tell him. There are stacks of manuscripts everywhere and he has all the pens over on his side of the room. “It just is, is all. Throw me a pen.” He does, I miss it, stoop to pick it up, and when I straighten up again I might be crying.
This is sort of a character development. We can see just how hard letting go of her collie is for her. She is letting it go on. She has the power to put the dog out of her misery, but she is making excuses to keep the dog.
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Wake up and smell zee bacons
I'm glad to see that she adds her own humor. Who doesn't talk to their dogs that way?
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