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DOG by EAMON GRENNAN

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First Line: WHEN I WALK DOWNHILL, A STRANGER, INTO TOWN
Last Line: --like the creatures of habit and habitat we are-- / retreat to our secret lives, glancing away
Subject(s): DOGS;
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