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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, when I was in college there was a beautiful park that on sunny days the girls

like to go study at and lay out. So the guys used to like to go to the park and lay out. So the guys used to like to go to the park to hit on those girls.

And the strategy many of them picked up was to get themselves a dog, the cutest dog possible, preferably a puppy, because they would walk out and the move was the girls

be like, oh my gosh, I get the puppy and you're like, I know, he's a little rascal but he's

lovable like me and you know kind of move on from there.

So I had a roommate that wanted to be one of those guys because he wanted to date

one of those girls and so he needed one of those dogs.

And we advised against it as his roommate.

He was one of those guys that could barely feed and clothe himself.

We're like, don't bring an animal into

you're crazy it's not right but he had a vision he was undaunted so he went

and got one and he came home and I remember he brought home this gorgeous animal.

And I say animal because she was three-fourths wolf.

Which I don't even know how that works but it does it's not legal by the way learn that but she was beautiful and so I remember the first day it was a sunny day I was sitting in the living room and he just kind of comes prancing in and shorts and a t-shirt, had a tennis ball in one hand, leash in another and just went, going to the park.

Got her, walked out, and showed up.

And not too long after that, I hear the front door open, and I see the wolf trot back in,

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