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Dogs Are Medicine

Trouble, My Very First Dog

Before Waffle and Tug, there was Trouble, our family’s first Bernese Mountain Dog. This is her story.

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Kate Speer
Mar 09, 2022
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I’ve been up since four am, but the anxiety has been swirling within me since far before then. 

What if I don’t honor Waffle, you or our story with my words? You all showed up for me – here – in a newsletter and none of the words I’ve been writing for the past few weeks seem right. How can I be sure that what I write here, for you, is worthy of reading? …

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