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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation. I was leaving the park the

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Speaker 1: other day. I threw a ball for the dog, and

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Speaker 1: a guy came up to me and he said, do

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Speaker 1: you mind if I tell you a story about your dogs.

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Speaker 1: It's a good story because when someone says that, you think, oh,

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Speaker 1: has the dog savage someone. She's not. She's the sweetest

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Speaker 1: natured thing dog. So I didn't know what it was

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Speaker 1: going to be. He said, he's lived up the street

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Speaker 1: from me for maybe fifteen years. I asked him if

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Speaker 1: I could tell this story, and he said, yes, I

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Speaker 1: could on the radio. He's lived up the street from

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Speaker 1: me for about fifteen years. And he said that he

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Speaker 1: used to walk past and see our previous dog, Ripley,

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Speaker 1: and they used to call the Sphinx because she'd just

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Speaker 1: sit there and overlook the balcony and have a look

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Speaker 1: at everybody. And he said he and his wife then

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Speaker 1: about ten years ago, split up, and he was in

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Speaker 1: a very dark place, so dark that one day he

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Speaker 1: was walking back up the street and he wasn't sure

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Speaker 1: what his actions might be. WHOA and he walked past

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Speaker 1: our house and he saw a brand new puppy and

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Speaker 1: the puppies smiled at him. Oh, that's Minnie. It's Mannie.

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Speaker 1: And he said it turned his day around. And he

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Speaker 1: said he had hard days again after that, but Minnie

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Speaker 1: and a dog smiling got him through what may have

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Speaker 1: been a really terrible day. Wow, it's amazing, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: And I loved hearing that story. And we never know

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Speaker 1: the impact that any of our actions have on anybody,

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Speaker 1: And when we meet someone at the shop or in

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Speaker 1: the street, we don't know what kind of day they're having.

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Speaker 1: It really reminded me of how kind we should be

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Speaker 1: to everyone. He said his life's fine now he's got

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Speaker 1: a new relationship and all is great, but he has said,

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Speaker 1: I've often wanted to tell you what your dog did

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Speaker 1: for me that day without knowing it just a dog smiling,

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Speaker 1: a dog smileing the day around. That was it.