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Tonight we'll read an 1886 short story titled Kushdanka by Anton Chekov and adapted by snoozecast.

It is a sincere and simple story about loyalty, about a dog named Kushdanka who experiences life with two very different masters.

It has been speculated that the story is a veiled biography of the author himself.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

One, misbehavior, a young dog, a reddish mutt, between a doxand and a yard dog, very like a fox in the face, was running up and down the pavement, peering from side to side.

From time to time she stopped and, lifting first one paw and then another, tried to make up her mind how it could have happened that she was lost.

She remembered very well how she had passed the day and how, in the end, she had found herself on this unfamiliar pavement.

The day had begun by her master, Luca Alexandraches, putting on his hat, taking something wooden under his arm, wrapped up in a red handkerchief, and calling Kushdanka, come along.

Hearing her name, the dog had come out from under the work table, where she slept on the wood shavings, stretched herself voluptuously, and ran after her master.

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