Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that one would wish children of their own on these dogged people. But they should know what they are doing, say to themselves over and over as they fondle the fur of their bouncey little puppy: "What I have here is (and I know it) a baby substitute...
...bathroom. It is this--not the fondling, not the playing of tricks, not the 'stand up; roll over, boy"--that most frequently causes the vectors of your life and the dog's to intersect. That is to say, that in terms of existential moments you get to know the dog by what it leaves behind...
...roomie took off for vacation on his father's private airplane for Florida. The dog, it goes without saying, couldn't be expected to discontinue its existence for ten days. So, through the series of accidents we've come to know as Fate, the dog fell into my hands...
...English teacher's student, do hate dogs. But I hate them because I know. I am more at one with their (the dogs') existence than most dog buyers I've run into. If they truly knew what they were doing, they would never have gotten the dog for many reasons similar to those because of which they presumably passed up actual children...
...floor. He gobbles my socks. It drives me nuts. It reminds me how much he wants to go out and run around in the street. He'd be killed if he did. Dogs should be allowed to grow up on big farms, and run around over the fields, and know all kinds of dog things about the land that we could never know...