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Speckles. What a ridiculous name. Mind you, the full thing is Mr. Speckles the Third. I do not know who Mr. Speckles One and Two were. But that’s what the small biped had named me when she excitedly pointed at me with one front paw and used the other to tug on her mother’s arm. I didn’t have a name before this. We didn’t need names on the streets–we could recognize one another by smell, by the way one walks. But then I got part of my left ear torn off by a coyote, narrowly avoiding my whole head being trapped in its jaws as I clambered up a...
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