Nothin ’ Special

" Lucy is the sweetest dog . She looks like a small black lab , and she will smile for you all day long ."

I f you ’ ve come this far , I assume that you have read about my dog Annie . If not , she was a wonderful white lab that my kids spent all of their younger years with , and she was the best dog . She had a very easy temperament , and frankly , she laid around a lot .

Kind of what you want in a dog . One that will just lay around , bark at noises , and come when called . Nothing more , nothing less .

Annie had been around for several years , and we had acquired a second child , the oldfashioned way . It wasn ’ t that hard . I could get you pregnant over the phone . My wife and I had the conversation about how many children we wanted . We both decided we

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