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Dog Days · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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  Speaker 1: My father never let us get a dog. We'd beg
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  Speaker 1: and we'd plead and ask why. He'd tell us that
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  Speaker 1: losing his as a kid was a painty wood and wish,
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  Speaker 1: and then all over again we would try. The first
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  Speaker 1: thing we did when Mom threw him out was get one.
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  Speaker 1: We were going to house him or house her. When
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  Speaker 1: Mom and me hit the local pet shop and both
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  Speaker 1: fell in love with a schnauzer. I named him. I
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  Speaker 1: loved him, but he wasn't man's best friend. He loved
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  Speaker 1: all the ladies on his list. I was at the inn.
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  Speaker 1: If everyone went away, no one else being home for
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  Speaker 1: the longest while, I'd hear him just roam. Then he
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  Speaker 1: must have concluded everyone was dead, and he'd apprehensively hop
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  Speaker 1: up onto my bed. His name was Cruiser, loud as
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  Speaker 1: can be. I could still remember that call from his
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  Speaker 1: vet late on a Sunday night. The first thing I
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  Speaker 1: thought when I hung up that phone was damn. My
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  Speaker 1: father was right.