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Brog was so excited to have me back he chatted all the way up the stairs.
"And then there was this squirrel! He came around all the time, and he tried to hide some nuts under Grog, and I said we should scare the squirrel away, but Grog said no, and then the squirrel put one too many nuts under Grog, and he got real mad and growled at the squirrel and it ran away! I laughed so hard I fell off the stoop and Grog had to pick nuts out of his butt!"
"That's funny, Brog." I laughed. "I can just see Grog picking nuts out of his butt."
"I know! It was hilarious!" Brog did a summersault along the hallway. "What did you do while you were gone, lady?"
I'd tried several times to get them to call me Phoenix, they weren't into it, so I let it go.
"I told you, Brog," I said quietly, "I
