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left.


               When I arrived at home, Hannah

       was still quite anxious.  She had to


       hear the whole story.  After I had told

       her most of it, she asked, “Then is he


       really as mean as they say?”

               I told her about how the other


       men came up while I was brushing

       him, and how he acted toward them.


               “What if he turns on you

       someday?” she said, the anxiousness


       telling in her voice.


               “That’s the funny thing about it.  I

       almost feel like he thought they were


       bad and he was protecting me from

       them.  He never wants me to leave.


       It’s as if he is attached to me for some

       reason.”


               “Why?”

               I shrugged.  “I don’t know.






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