The Puppy Had a Note Tied to Her Paw-and Someone Promised to Call at Noon

The puppy was standing on three legs when I first saw her. The fourth was lifted against her chest, not because it was injured, but because a folded piece of notebook paper had been fastened around it with a red  hair tie. Every time the wind dragged the paper toward the ground, she bent over it and pressed it beneath her paw.

It was 6:42 on a December continue reading …