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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Last week we were gone to the great Alabama Gulf
Coast for some much needed R&R. Furbabies stayed home with the
nephew. Missed them terribly (after the first few days).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Upon arriving home, some very disturbing
sights. First of all, our baby, Lowretta, who will be one year old the end
of July, no longer looked like a puppy. She seemed longer, taller,
heavier, stockier, a big girl now. It was a shock.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stanley looked older. He's only eight and a
half. His eyebrows are turning white, as is some hair around his
muzzle. We noticed this in a picture we took a couple of months ago, but
it seemed so much more pronounced. My boy is becoming an old
man.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I was glad to be home, but stood on the
sidewalk crying because my one baby is growing up and my other baby is getting
older.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Lesson learned: Don't leave home or at
least don't leave home without them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bonnie</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Slave to Stanley, Beachbaby, Lowretta, Stella
(ATB), J.D. (ATB), Begonia (ATB)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>