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Tweet “Are you r-e-a-dy?” I sing to Sadie. She lowers her haunches into an anticipatory, quivering sit. I fling her yellow tennis ball into the shallow lake. Charging full tilt, Sadie splashes after it. She is focused, confident, and ecstatic. My heart balloons with delight. Then Sadie stops dead in the chest high water. The yellow […]

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Tweet I dread, deeply, clipping Sadie’s toe nails. I go all queasy just thinking about it.  Sadie is shy and extremely sensitive. I wasn’t about to be the meanie coming at her with what I feared would look like hedge shears to her. It didn’t happen often, but when I did cut too close to […]

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