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The Ronaissance Newsletter – This Dog Days of My Summer
August Doesn't Count Hudson Heartbreaker - My Joy Boy - The Wagger with Swagger When I was a kid, I used to think of summer as May, June, and July. For many years (maybe all of them...I can't remember), we returned to school the last week of August–which took August out of the running as a summer month! These days, this dog rules my summer (and autumn and winter and spring) and I'm here for it! Our walks have been intermittent because of either pouring rain and unrelenting humidity, but we...
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