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"She had noticed that she took more pictures when the seasons lived up to our expectations of them: pictures of snow in winter and bright sunshine in summer, a hot day on the beach, red and yellow leaves and a child in rain boots in autumn—and always snaps with sandals in summer, even in summers when most days were rain boot days. As if we had templates for the seasons and when everything fits we take a picture."

"But when the older of the two dogs died the speckled one no longer wanted to sleep beside him on the bed. It was grieving, he said. It was inconsolable. He tried to get one dog to come up onto the bed, wanting to comfort it, he thought it liked him, that he was its best friend.

He wasn't. The dog had lain on his bed because it was the closest it could get to the other dog."