An incredibly touching story by ESPN’s Bill Simmons about the death, and most wonderfully, the life of his dog “The Dooze”. Impossible not to draw some similarities between Bill’s loss and our own. h/t Beijing Boyce on Twitter. ...full story at Humanaught
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