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Candida Pugh

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About my memoir, My Life in Dog Years

I fell in love with dogs when I was a young kid. Since the first pup, Scrappy, I’ve owned countless dogs. Literally, I cannot count the number. In this memoir, I tell the stories of the most memorable among my beautiful pets. It’s funny and sad and nutty in places because I’m nutty in places. Well, not all places. Anyway, it’s gotten some good reviews. Heads up: It does involve an incident of childhood sexual trauma. But you could skip that. ;-)

My permanent home is Oakland, CA.

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	Bridge of the Single Hair 4.04 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Two Weeks in Madrid (Lucky Me)

The trouble started before we left Oakland, California. I bought a OneSimCard for my iPhone and another for Charles’s economy phone, purchased a few years ago, when we were in Holland. Two days before takeoff, we tried them out. Neither phone would ring when we followed the dialing instructions on the Web site.
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Do Animals think? : About consciousness in birds, dolphins, penguins, trees and other life forms

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