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Daddy Can
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and the Unexplainable
By Kemala Tribe
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.
~Dean Koontz The end was nearing for Daddy. The brilliant mind, fastidious habits, acerbic wit — they’d all disappeared a few years earlier. He’d been a leader of men. Now he had trouble guiding his fork to his mouth. Gone were the days of erect posture and immaculate grooming, well-cut suits and blinding white dress shirts. It was easier now to keep him in pajamas. He was still terribly handsome for a man of his years, but shaving that cleft chin was a chore.
He’d cursed us recently for installing a zoo in the back yard. It was “unsanitary.” It was “unthinkable.”
It was the great-grandchildren’s inflatable toys bobbing in the pool. (Keep reading)
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