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Low life

The pleasures — and pain — of dog-walking

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

The old dog was in a companionable frame of mind and she trotted along at my side, glancing up now and then at my face with a grin, perhaps with happiness at being out and about in a pleasant temperature in a changing season. Each evening we tread the same 40-minute circuit out of the village and back.

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