Someone To Love

When we found the puppy I didn’t suspect Carly and I would find so much more...

    “But, Mummy, he’s looking for a home!”   Carly’s huge blue eyes were pleading with me as she hugged the puppy in her arms.   “Can’t we keep him?   Oh, please...”
    “I wish we could, sweetheart,” I said with a sigh.   “But we can’t afford a puppy and anyway, this one’s got a collar, which means he already belongs to someone.”
    “Well he can’t like them much else he wouldn’t have run away,” Carly pouted.   “Anyway now he’s here, and he wants to stay!”
    Carly was almost five, and with a very determined mind.

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