Marley (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Marley: A loveable, wild, playful, joyous, loyal friend. A man's best friend! :{D
• John Grogan: Marley's master (more like his best friend) who is totally devastated when it is Marley's time. John loves to wrestle, snuggle, have fun with his best friend, Marley.
• Jenny Grogan: John's wife who loves Marley so much and wants to remember him as a loyal, loving dog.
• Conorpoop: John and Jenny's son who loves to play with Marley and laugh and just have a good time.
• Patrick: John and Jenny's son who absolutely loves Marley. Marley has been there for him his whole life.
• Colleen: John and Jenny's youngest child who loved to play with Marley and can't even imagine the thought of losing him because he had been there for her her whole entire lifetime.

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• “He always came on command - unless something caught his attention, such as another dog, squirrel, butterfly, mailman, or floating weed seed. He always sat - unless he felt like standing. He always heeled - unless there was something so tempting it was worth strangling himself over, such as another dog, butterfly....Well, you get the idea.”

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• stomped clumsy circles around us on giant paws that were way too big for the rest of his body.

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• a good name. He mastered every command I taught him and was naturally well behaved. I could drop a crust on the floor and he would not

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• One thing was clear. Jenny and I loved our dog, but having a bunch of little Marleys running around in the world was not a good idea. It was time to make sure Marley couldn’t make any puppies. Jenny and I decided to have him fixed so he would never be a father.

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• On January 9, 1997, Jenny gave me a belated Christmas present: a pink-cheeked, seven-pound baby girl. We named her Colleen.

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• “You want to pick one that’s not timid,” my father coached. “Try rattling the cage and see which ones aren’t afraid.”

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• more thrilled about it. Then, with the roar of a stampeding herd of buffalo, it was gone, around the back of the house and out of sight. Jenny let out a little gasp. “I think,” I said, a slight queasiness rising

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• touch it until I said it was okay. When I called, he came. When I told him to stay, he stayed. We could let him out

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• “He sure seems to love life,” one dog owner commented. That just about said it all.

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• We had been married for a little over a year and decided it was time for another family member. A dog, to be exact. We were on our way to look at a litter of Labrador retrievers.

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• Marley didn’t actually wag his tail. He wagged his whole body, starting with the front shoulders and working backward. He was like the canine version of a Slinky. We swore there were no bones inside him—just one big, elastic muscle. Jenny began calling him Mr. Wiggles.

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• West Palm Beach, Florida
• Boca Raton, Florida
• Pennsylvania

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1. John Grogan (Author)

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• Dewey: 636.75270929

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• Books › Children's Books › Animals › Dogs › Nonfiction
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs
• Books › Teens › Biographies & Memoirs

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