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Afterword: Now They Are Orphans

We had a dog when I was a child, whom we were obliged to leave behind when we moved. Not long after our departure, she broke free of her new situation (a family who loved her, perhaps, but not her own) and ran the mile or so back to the empty house where we had lived. My mother told me this story when she heard it, and I wonder why: I was awfully young, and it hurt me to imagine our dog circling the house in a state of distress and confusion. It still does. I suppose my mother's own grief at the thought of her Lassie come home, to find all she had counted on gone, was simply too much for her to bear alone. I can hardly blame her. She was young, too-younger by far than I am now-and we're ...

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