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I will begin this talk with a short story, a woman described some years ago, that a tired

old dog had come into her yard and walked in her door and followed her into the house

down a hall and jumped on her couch and took a nap for an hour.

And she left the dog be because it didn't have tags but had a collar and it looked well

fed and it was a nice dog and her dogs didn't mind.

So it was fine.

Dog after an hour left and the next day the same thing happened that the dog came, walked

in the house, jumped on her couch, took a nap for an hour and this went on for a week.

And so the woman got curious and she pinned a little note to the dog's collar and she

said, you know, your dog's been coming to my house every day and taking a nap and I

don't mind but I just want to make sure it's okay with you.

Well the next day the dog came back and it had another note pinned to its collar to her.

And the note read this.

It said, he lives in a home with three children and he's trying to catch up on his sleep.

May I come with him tomorrow?

So I wanted to start off with that story mostly because I found it when I first heard it

just, it's just so kind of heartwarming, the sense of we're all in it together.

There was a kind of feeling of empathy that crossed species and it was sweet in that

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