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Pull up a chair. A few months after we moved into this place, a little black dog showed up outside the fence. I was at work. Herself called…

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For Marcus

I barely graduated high school in 1974. After that, I was in a rough place. Really rough. One day I was driving down Thousand Oaks Boulevard and noticed…

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