CHAPTER TWO: Morning Edition

As usual, I was searching local online data feeds – morning edition. It was a game I played with myself – trying to anticipate what would pique Shirley's interest that day. My devised categories were:  crime, of course; anything about anyone of social note; any obituary that looked remotely unusual; scientific articles; anything about any private investigator anywhere in the Northwest United States of America; and – again – of  course, any articles that mentioned her name. She read all the financials on her own. For myself, I filed articles about animals. Good, bad, or indifferent, I saved them all. Over the years I watched a trend emerge -- an awareness forming that animals are beings too. An awakening to how related we all are. O...

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