Was Penny the dog of my dreams? Absolutely not, and I couldn't be more grateful for that. Ever since her ship crash landed on our planet five years ago, Penny's infused our lives with her cosmic energy.

Sure, we may have lost pieces of our sanity along the way, but I've never had more than a tenuous grip on those to begin with.

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