"You should get a dog, he says.
She laughs. A dog? Why?
Then you'd have an excuse. You could take it for walks. Me and the dog.
The dog would be jealous of you, she says. And you'd think I liked the dog better.
But you wouldn't like the dog better, he says.
She opens her eyes wider. Why wouldn't I?"
~Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin
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