Our Golden Retriever Waited at the School Fence for My Daughter Every Afternoon, Through Rain and Cold, and Never Once Missed. I Thought It Was Loyalty. The Reason Was Something I Had Done a Year Earlier and Forgotten.

Synopsis

I need to tell you how we got the dog, because the way we got the dog turns out to be the whole story, and I did not know that for almost a year. We got our Golden Retriever in the summer before last — so, the summer before the school year I am telling you about. His name is Biscuit. Cora named him; Cora names everything after food; we also at one point had…