One day a woman boarded the subway at the Sutter Avenue Station in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She was carrying a puppy in a basket. She tried to explain her sad dilemma to the dog: “Don’t think … that I don’t like you. I love you, but there’s nothing to give you to eat, and that’s actually why we had to send away our little Emma to her aunt’s house in Boston.” But the dog, named Labzik, didn’t understand English. His only response was a happy “Woof, woof!”
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