So when he turned 4, a Havanese puppy entered our lives as surely as a box of Duplos. The runt of her litter, Chicky was also heterochromatic — she had one blue eye and one brown one. Our regular dog walker was recovering from surgery, so her husband, who was filling in, had taken Chicky and two other dogs to the park that day. The other dogs were fine, but Chicky bore the impact of the recklessly handled Jeep and died almost instantly. Cars had been getting bigger and bigger, drivers seemed to become more and more unhinged and Chicky remained small, vulnerable, low to the ground.

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Persons: Chicky, —, Minerva Organizations: Rhode Locations: Labrador, Brooklyn, Rhode Island