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Chris Erskine: Finding fun as summer tries to slip away

Giving shape and form to my somewhat diaphanous life are these two dogs, one deaf and the other afraid of cats. As Jimmy Stewart quipped in "It's a Wonderful Life": "Well, you look about like the kind of (guardian) angel I'd get."

Maybe I'm the guardian and they're the angels?

Each night, the 300-pound beagle needs to go out - at 3 a.m., then again at 5 - thereby ensuring that I'll always be a little chilled, my toes a

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