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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My beloved dogs: 72 of 78

A Story of a Boy and His Dog I was about twelve years old when Blue adopted me. He just showed up at my door one day and that was it. He was a pure-bred American Pointer. He was about a year old and had perfect pointer form. He had obviously been trained harshly because he was very cowed. After several months of love and re-assurance he emerged from his shell. Then one day I heard the screech of tires in the street in front of our house. Blue had been run over by a car. There was a tire print going directly across his abdomen. I picked him up and put him in the bed I had made for him. He w...
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