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Winnie had never visited the Animal Adoption Center. She often told herself that when the time came to get a dog or cat, she would go to the shelter and rescue the one that felt like the right match.
But the years went by, and Winnie was always too busy at work to think about bringing home a pet. She kept pushing the matter to some vague time in the future.
Her husband, Joe, had solved that by bringing home a puppy for Winnie for her sixty-first birthday. It was love at first sight. How Joe knew which puppy to choose was as much a mystery to him as it was to Winnie. Clover slipped so perfectly into their family life, it was as though she were a puzzle piece that had been missing.
Joe died just four years later. Although Winnie still missed him every day, she could only imagine how bo
