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Lola

"Let's just take a look", I said.  My law partner (then roommate) and I were at the local Trade Days.  We were buying some metal planters for the porch, and I thought we should just walk down the "puppy aisle" and see the puppies for sale.  I had no intention of buying a puppy, and certainly I had never bought a puppy at a place like that.  Then I came up to a booth of white miniature schnauzers. They weighed about 2-3 lbs each and were in an aquarium.  An aquarium! "Ooh!  I'm going to pet those puppies!", I exclaimed.  "Don't pet the puppies!", Jennifer wisely said.  But I did, and there was one that was 90% ears and paws.  She was tossing paper and just generally full of spunk.  I talked to the vendor about the puppies, and then we left.  We got the planters and left the trade days.  We went to Walmart next, for what, who can even remember.  But I do recall walking down the aisles at Walmart and saying, "I need to go back and