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A dog’s touch

H, that’s him, that’s my boy.’ Jeremy Cassel stroked the head of his beloved dog Grady, caressing the folds of his cheeks with a tenderness that brought a stray tear sliding down my face. Jeremy is blind; Grady, an Alsatian/golden-retriever cross, had

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