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Continue Reading Pet People. Have you ever talked to your pet? “I know what you’re thinking! Some more of this sad face and she’ll relent and…
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Continue Reading For the Departed Again we are numb when thinking about the number of people ripped out of life by gun violence and mass shootings in…
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