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The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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