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Best Emerging Writers 2024: “Disfigured: An Essay” by Emilie Pascale Beck - The Masters Review
The dog seemed old from the time we got him, as if he was acting the part of an elderly man. At the shelter, they said probably two. The vet said likely four. This makes him, now, either sixteen or ei...