“'You know all that stuff we’ve always said about you?’ I whispered. ‘What a total pain you are? Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it for a minute, Marley.’ He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that no one ever had. I wanted him to hear it before he went.
Marley,’ I said. ‘You are a great dog.’”
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