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A Hamster’s Story: The making of a novel

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His fur is growing mangy and patchy. Grooming his fur. It happened too fast for little Emmie to process. And when she did have time for Hamlet, Emmie cried and pleaded with her mom to take him to the vet. As if the vet had a cure for old age. I would take him to my house that evening since the Vet was closed.

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Fizzle’s Story

4 The Love Of Animals

The whole process had taken four hours. I felt so sorry for the poor thing—we had to call our vet out to sedate him—so I decided to take him home as a foster. It showed Fizzle, white fur gleaming, red bow in his topknot, sitting on the lap of a woman who, like Barb, looked as if she hadn’t lived an easy life.

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