My Mother Sold My Daughter’s Dog For Money But She Had No Idea Who Legally Owned Him

used, and the metal tag with his name on it was scratched from years of bumping against his water bowl, and the whole object carried the particular weight of something that has been loved by a child long enough to become irreplaceable in ways that adults who put prices on things cannot understand.

“Did he think we gave him away?” she asked.

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