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I did not expect to be abducting a pedigree dog after class.My mom picked me up in front of the school, said, “We need to make a stop first before we go home,” and went the opposite way of the usual home route. For a moment I hoped we were going to get pizza, or maybe we would make a surprise visit to the bookstore. It turned out my mother was planning on “repossessing” a sixth-month-old puppy. I was too scandalized to say anything.“These people don’t take care of him,” my mother said angrily as she drove toward our destination. By then we h...
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"Try the octopus," her editor had said. "It's one of the better dishes and if something's wrong with it, the deep fryer will probably kill it before it reaches you." Joanne liked calamari, and getting a restaurant review gig was better than covering another high school soccer game, but now she regretted her decision. The lowest rated restaurant in town had been assigned to her and the advice now seemed to inspire more fear of her immediate future than had been intended. "If something's wrong with it," he'd said. If was a strong word. It was...
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