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trailer. And now, here you are,

brushing him like a kitten.”

I just shrugged. “I don’t know

anything about what happened in

California. But he seems to like

being brushed.”

“But what did you do to make

him gentle?” the other one asked. He

looked at the beer in his hand then

back at me. “You didn’t give him

something funny to drink, did you?”

I laughed. “Of course not. He’s

just gentle.”

“I’ll be danged if I believe that,”

the first man said. “You must have

done something.”

“I didn’t really do anything,” I

replied. “I fed him a few apples, let

him out, he ran a bit, and then I

started brushing him.”

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