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When the door opened to the elevator in my apartment building, I saw a man I didn’t know. With him was a huge yellow Labrador retriever. I reached my hand out, and the dog responded in a friendly way, stepping toward me as he sniffed my hand.

“Sit down, Phoebe,” the man told his dog.

He didn’t know why I couldn’t stop laughing.