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My Life in Dog Years~

Unbashedly:

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Not ashamed, disconcerted, or apologetic; boldly certain of one’s position

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My Life in Dog Years~

Dedication-

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A written piece at the beginning of a piece of literature or a performance

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My Life in Dog Years~

Lead dog:

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First dog in a sled dog team

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My Life in Dog Years~

Mandatory:

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You have to do it

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My Life in Dog Years~

Cookie:

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Was paulsen’s lead dog and when Gary fell through the ice, cookie saved him.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Snowball:
Philippine Islands-

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An archipelago of 7,083 islands in the pacific, southeast of china.

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Snowball:
Haggle-

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To bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner

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Snowball:
Civilian-

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A person who is not on active duty.

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Snowball:
Ravaged-

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Destroyed

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My Life in Dog Years~
Snowball:
Devastated-

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Also destroyed.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Snowball:
Evolved-

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To develop gradually.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Snowball:
Conical-

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Having the form of, resembling, or pertaining to a cone.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Snowball:
Jauntily-

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Easy and sprightly in manner of bearing.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Snowball:
Who was snowball?

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Gary’s first dog in the Philippines.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Dirk:
Predatory-

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Living by killing and eating, or stealing.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Dirk:
Menace-

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A dangerous or possibly harmful person or thing, threatening.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Dirk:
Impasse-

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A situation in which no progress seems possible

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My Life in Dog Years~
Dirk:
Brindled-

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Having faint dark streaks or spots on a gray or light brown background.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Dirk:
Who is dirk?

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An alley dog that Gary befriends and dirk protects him.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Rex:
Palomino

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A horse with a golden coat, a white mane and tail, white markings on face and legs, developed chiefly in the southwestern U.S.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Rex:
Perversion

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The act of perverting

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My Life in Dog Years~
Rex:
Materialized

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To come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real.

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My Life in Dog Years~
Rex:
Veld

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The open country

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Rex:
Forays

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A quick raid, usually for taking plunder.

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My Life in Dog Years~ Rex: Who is Rex?
A dog at the farm Gary worked at.
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My Life in Dog Years~ Caesar: Disseminating
To scatter or spread widely
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My Life in Dog Years~ Caesar: Moot
Open to discussion or debate.
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My Life in Dog Years~ Caesar: Emaciated
A thinness cause by bad nutrition or disease
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My Life in Dog Years~ Caesar: Montage
The technique of combining in a simple composition, to give the illusion that they belonged together originally.
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My Life in Dog Years~ Caesar: Who was Caesar?
A crazy Great Dane paulsen has that loves hot dogs!
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My Life in Dog Years~ Fred: Who was Fred?
A determined dog that becomes best friends with a pig.
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My Life in Dog Years~ Quincy: Misgivings
A feeling of doubt
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My Life in Dog Years~ Quincy: Convoluted
Twisted, coiled
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My Life in Dog Years~ Quincy: Devious
Departing from the most direct way
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My Life in Dog Years~ Quincy: Daunting
To overcome with fear, intimidate
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My Life in Dog Years~ Quincy: Who was Quincy?
A determined ratty looking dog that protects Gary's wife from a bear.
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My Life in Dog Years~ Josh: Quintessential
The pure and essential essence of something
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My Life in Dog Years~ Josh: Disconcerting
Disturbing to ones composure, upsetting.
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My Life in Dog Years~ Josh: Tethered
A rope by which an animal is fastened to a fixed object so to limit it's movement
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My Life in Dog Years~ Josh: Facile
Moving with superficiality.
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My Life in Dog Years~ Josh: Who was Josh?
A loving border collie that seems to be a person.
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Whispers from the Dead~ | Deduction
the act or process of deducting; subtraction.
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WFTD | Sleuth
a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
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WFTD | Evidence
that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof.
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WFTD | Alibi
an excuse, especially to avoid blame.
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WFTD | Witness
to bear witness to; testify to; give or afford evidence of.
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WFTD | Motive
something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
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WFTD | Stool Pigeon
A spy or informer
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WFTD | Who was the boy Sarah met and went out with in Houston?
Tony
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WFTD | What was Sarah's first reaction to the new house?
She was frightened
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WFTD | How many murders occurred in Sarah's house?
Two
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WFTD | To divert attention
Red herring
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Gee
Turn right
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Haw
Turn left
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Alliance
To form a bond
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Series if events in stories
Plot
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Play on words
Pun
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Rigging
All the lines when dog sledding
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A light, tame mystery
Cozy mystery
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5x woman iditarod winner
Susan butcher
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Antagonist
Opposing character
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The difference, according to paulsen, in men & animals
Fire!
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Publuc begging of race
Anchorage
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When was the serum run?
1925
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Where was the serum run going?
Nome
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Who is Ike?
He is the stray black lab that Gary becomes friends with and hunts with him.

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