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We have a little dog: she's a mutty mix of Shih Tzu, Maltese, maybe poodle or Bijon, and some things we can't identify. She's an awesome dog.
Her official name is Pumpernickel, although nobody ever calls her that.
Her official nickname is Nicky, which we only sometimes use.
She answers to Little Dog, Little Hairy Sausage Dog, Nick, Knickknack, Fuzzbomb, Fluffy Dog, Little Fuzzy, Furry Girl, Puppy, variations on Nick (Nicodemus, Nickelodeon, Nicolas Copernicus, Nikola Tesla, Nikolai Ivanovich, etc.), and occasionally, Shmatteh.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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