Fiction | September 01, 1997

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The dog was a mixture of god-knows-how-many breeds, but the vet had told them he had at least some rottweiler blood.  You could see it in his shoulders, and you could hear it when he barked,, which he was doing that night when they pulled up beside the gate and Chuckie cut the engine.

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