Lucy the Lunatic (and Redd Foxx)

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Welcome to my weekly panic Attack.
I'm your host, Remy Brooks. I've

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been a licensed psychotherapist for over twenty
years and run a thriving private practice.

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I'm also diagnosed s BI polar an
OCD. Often the two do not mix

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well, which tends to throw my
life into complete chaos. So as I

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do some spiraling, my best friend
Liz Win will do her best to ground

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me a bit. During this podcast, we'll be talking about the horror and

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the humor of the anxieties of daily
life, the things we do that are

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embarrassing, funny, but yet very
human. Let's get started, and there's

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no better way to get started than
by beginning this EPISOD episode and all episodes

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with my friend and co host,
the beautiful, intelligent, and ever rational

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Liz Win. How are you,
Liz Dad? How are you today?

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I what's making you anxious? By
I'm not gonna go there yet. I

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had planned to talk about road breach, but as I am learning, plans

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change. So while I am not
comfortable with change in the least, we

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will get to all of that later. Here's a well adjusted moment from Liz's

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life. So I'm staying at a
hotel in Virginia this week, and I

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didn't see the sprinklers go off in
my room along with the ten others.

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But I gotta start it over again. Sorry, I'm staying in this hotel

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in Virginia on a work trip,
and didn't the sprinklers go off in like

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half the rooms on my floor?
Of course, I didn't get back to

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the hotel room to witness the massive
flooding until eleven o'clock at night, when

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I was exhausted. I just really
wanted to collapse. So as exhausted as

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you were, you of course went
downstairs and yelled at every staff person you

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saw. Did you end up in
the ten hols? No, remy,

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the TV was working and the bed
was dry. I just asked for extra

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tails for the floor. I left
a screaming for everybody else. And this

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has been a well adjusted moment from
Liz's life. Do you know what time

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it is? What time is it? It is time to tell you what

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the hell I'm stressing out about now, And it's not road rage. I

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really really thought I was going to
share quite the story about road rage.

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But you said to Lucy last week, be good, right, and you're

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a good girl. I love you
so much or the best? Did that

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not work? No? No,
it did not. As a matter of

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fact, she came up with a
plan. She's a dog. How did

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she do that? Because she's very
SmartLess, she's very very smart. The

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end of our podcast, I opened
up the door and Lucy the lunatic,

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just as I predicted, was laying
right outside the door, listening to every

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single word we talk about. And
when I saw her there, I said

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to her, I said, I
praised you every word, every word.

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It was only good things. I
knew you were listening. You have to

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agree only positives, all good.
She raised her head, she gave a

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little nod, and I know what
that nod said. It said, just

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you wait, relation of like his
all knives or pointy objects in your house

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because the dogs ary. That's the
thing. Like, I really have to

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admit. I went to bed that
night just a little bit scared. I

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woke up the next morning to find
multiple puddles of piss. Now it's noteworthy

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to add that Lucy is completely housebroken. She doesn't pay in the house,

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so this really was completely out of
spite. And at first I was angry,

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right, but then I was sad, Like all She's not a happy

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dog, and I don't know why. I really you know, she lives

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a really good life. She goes
to doggie daycare and she loves it.

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She has so many doggie friends.
She loves her food, she loves her

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trees. She has so many different
bones. She hangs out next to me

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on the couch and I pet her
for hours. She adores my kids and

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they love her like she is a
loved dog. She should be happy.

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I have no idea why she is
not happy. And all I really want

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is for everybody living under my roof
to be as happy as possible, and

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whatever I can do to make that
happen, I will gladly do. But

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she's not happy. It's Friday night
in the garage, which is my thinking

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place. That's where where, that's
where I spend my time because I'm away

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from I'm away from the kids,
and I'm away from Lucy, and that

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is where I go. I was
drinking cup after cup after cup of coffee,

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smoking cigarette after cigarette after cigarette,
and I am thinking, and I'm

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in there for like hours, and
I take a sleeping pill and it hits

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me as the sleeping pill hits me. Huh, that maybe Lucy needs a

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friend. Maybe I should get my
dog a dog? Now? Is that

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what your mother was? Is that
what you were going to say? That's

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what she did. She got a
cat for the cat. Okay, how

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did that work out? It did
work out for her. It did work

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out for her. Okay, So
now you have to care for two animals

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instead of one. Okay, that
that was not There is no part of

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me that once a second dog.
I was not raised in a two dog

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household. I don't know about two
dog households. That was never the plan.

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I do not want a second dog. But Lucy is happiest when she

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is playing with another dog, and
like I said to you, I really

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want her to become a happy dog. Right. So again, I have

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taken my sleeping pill. I am
on my last cigarette of the night.

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I might not even be able to
finish it. When my phone dings with

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the notification and I look at my
phone it's from the next door app.

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And I mean I can't even really
see straight at this point, But my

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OCD kicks in, and part of
my OCD is that I absolutely cannot have

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any numbers on my phone. All
numbers need to be cleared as soon as

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they pop up numbers, like you
can't see the little bob the little dots

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with the numbers in it right,
exactly exactly, So no notification numbers,

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they can't have it. Like,
the only time I go on Facebook is

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when there's a notification. So I
have to get onto Facebook to clear the

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notification, and in doing so,
I see the very first on the homepage,

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the very first thing that somebody had, you know, that somebody had

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written up, you know, so
like I see nothing past whatever the very

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first thing is. So anytime somebody
like adds me on Facebook, I'm like,

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just you know, I'm a really
bad Facebook friend because I only see

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the very first thing. I don't
scroll, I don't do any of that

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stuff. I don't know anything about
any of that. I don't care.

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What I care about is clearing all
of the numbers. So I muster up

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the little bit of energy that I
have left and I open the app simply

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to clear the number. And it's
amazing that I can even read it.

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But it says the title urgent need
immediate help. And it makes me laugh

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because I am clearly not the audience
this person is trying to reach, not

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immediate help. Maybe tomorrow. No, not ever. I am exactly the

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one who steps up to offer help
to strangers. But but within this message

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is a picture of a dog.
So I continue reading, okay, and

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who knew? The next town over
there's a rescue place, a dog rescue

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place, okay, and they're expecting
a dog tomorrow. And this woman is

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that this is what that what the
whole thing reads. She's at maximum capacity.

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She must find a foster home for
this dog immediately. Can anybody help?

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Now, Liz? Was I not
just thinking for hours about getting my

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dog a dog? Yes? It
is perhaps a sign, because I'm very

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big about signs. I'm also very
drugged. So what do I do?

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Obviously I call her immediately in that
state, in that state me, I'm

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sorry what you say? So there
must have been an interesting conversation on her

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and from what I recall, which
by the way, was like through snores

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and through yawns, I'm like,
tell me, didn't you know about this

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dog? And let me tell you
everything about Lucy? And it turns out

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that it really did not sound like
this dog would be a good match for

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Lucy. But she was a capacity
she and it she did have a dog

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within her rescue. That did sound
like it would be a good match for

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Lucy. And she told me everything
about this other dog and he sounded wonderful.

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So I say, half asleep.
It's close to two o'clock in the

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morning at this point, what's his
name? And she says pinclincl pencil,

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And I'm thinking a Christian dog and
we're a Jewish household. Maybe I got

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the signs crossed. Maybe this is
actually not meant to be moment after all.

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But Liz, without any prompting what
soever, she then says to me,

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but I've had him for three weeks
and I renamed him Red Fox.

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Do you happen to know who that
is? Yeah, yea red Fox from

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Sanford and sons, Uh yeah,
no no no no no no no no

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no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no,

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no, no no no. The
dog comes with his own TV theme song,

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Liz, the signs, the signs, Liz, absolutely get you came

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with her? So he came with
this. Yes, So I say,

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let's meet for a meet and greet
tomorrow. Tomorrow arrives and Lucy sees the

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woman and begins her so embarrassing,
Liz, it's so embarrassing, this ferocious

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bark. But then she sees that
this woman brought a dog. Okay,

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starking, and Lucy says, a
dog, a dog at my helps welcome,

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please come in, says host Is
Lucy. And the two of them

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play hard, and this woman says, well, do you want to try

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him out? Do you want to
see how they get along? And I

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do, Liz, I do,
I really really do? Yes, yes

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I do. So the woman heads
for the door, and Lucy sees that

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she's about to leave, and Lucy
guards that door and she says, um,

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lady, you seem to have forgotten
your dog. Get your dog.

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It was fun having you here and
you can come back any time, but

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get your dog. So the woman
suggests that I distract the dogs by going

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into the other room and offering them
treats, which is a great idea.

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So I grab a handful of treats. Lucy wants some treats. You want

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treats. You want treats, And
you could actually see Lucy's thought process.

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Your dog, she says, treats, and Lucy runs to me for the

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treats and eats them all and then
runs back to the door. Damn.

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It she missed the woman. So
the two dogs were so tired from playing

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so hard that the rest of the
night Read and Lucy they were just songked.

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I ended up crating Read for the
night and bringing Lucy upstairs into my

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bedroom and we all slept so beautifully. But first thing in the morning,

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Red started barking, and Lucy looked
at me like I forgot there was a

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dog here, motherfucker. Oh my
goodness. So we go downstairs and I

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let them out and I fed them, and then everybody looks at me like,

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so, now what let's plan?
What is the plan? And I'm

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like, I don't know. Why
don't you two play? And they were

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like no, And I'm like,
what is the plan? Toys? Toys

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or the plan? So we go
when I get the toy box and Lucy

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is not a toy dog. Toys
are so beneath her. She is a

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bone. Okay, don't get it
confused. So Lucy grabs her bone and

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walks away and Read like has never
seen so many toys before. He must

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have been very excited. Oh my
god, he was so excited. He

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had so many to choose from.
So he grabs a toy and he sits

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down on the floor and he starts
enjoying this toy. And then Lucy looks

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to see what he's doing, and
she walks over to him, and she

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takes that toy right out of his
mouth and says, this is my toy

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and one of my favorite toys.
She's never ever played with it. You

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do a child that you can't That's
exactly right, she said, you can't

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have it, and read totally chill, totally chill. He goes back to

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the toybox. He just picks up
a different toy. There were so many.

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He picks up a different toy.
It's no problem. Lucy, who's

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on the other side of the house
now with her bone and this toy that

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she's forcing herself to play with just
to make a point, looks and sees

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that he picked up a different toy. Walk it over. I can't have

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that. Walks over to him,
grabs it from his mouth. This is

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also a favorite of mine, to
not touched it. Grabs it from him,

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brings it to this stash she's now
creating. Okay, she's acting like

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an only child. Now, that's
what it is. That's exactly what it

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is. I would continue, you
know, with this. But I think

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you're seeing the pattern here, so
I can just move on, right,

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Yeah, So then he forgets about
the toys. Eventually, because this continues

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happening, he moves on. He
jumps on the couch, which is where

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I'm sitting. He lays on top
of me and just covers me with kisses.

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Oh, Lucy jumps on the couch
and throws him to the floor.

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The mommy is mine, The mommy
is all mine. Stay away from her.

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Okay, he got it. My
youngest is on the other side of

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the couch. I have so read
went to my youngest and cuddled up with

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him. Lucy walked over, took
him by the scruff, and threw him

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to the floor. The boy is
mine, don't you dare? And before

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I knew it, I was breaking
up a leghit dog fight. Oh my

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god. Blood was not drawn,
but they went at it in like a

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serious way. Now, as a
reminder, this was all about trying to

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make Lucy a your dog, which
seems to be backfiring big time, big

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time. Now. The problem is, and I will deny saying this until

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the day I die. Uh huh. I like Read much more than I

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like Lucy. I notice that you
went down in volume when you said that

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your friend she's listening, aren't you. I shush, shush, but the

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knives away, block the door.
Um, okay, we're we're going to

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just move on. Okay, none
of what I said matters because this is

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one hundred percent about Lucy. So
I am keeping my fingers across my toes

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crossed, everything is crossed, hoping
that this is going to work out and

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that read it will become part of
this family. And it's interesting because last

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week, maybe even the week before, I have been talking about how my

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household has become so chaotic, and
yet it is now even more so by

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my own doing so chaos to your
household. I'm doing it myself. It's

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like I am looking for ways to
punish myself, Like, in what way

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next can I make things worse for
myself? But I'm really really hoping that

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this works out and that this,
you know, the whole idea of getting

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my dog a dog, is actually
a smart idea and not a really stupid

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one. So I will keep you
updated on how this all turns out.

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Because I am fostering to adopt.
This is not a commitment. He can

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always go back. This is a
trial, pure but I really want to

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keep him. So we will see
how this works out. Maybe after a

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week or so, she'll just calm
down and get, you know, get

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used to it. I remember when
my mother brought my brother home. She

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you know, when she had given
birth to him. I looked at her,

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my little like two year old self, and saw that she had a

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bundle and walked away and didn't talk
to her for a week. I came

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frown. I hope, So,
I hope I made a good decision,

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not like the worst decision ever,
because now we're all already attached to him.

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He's super sweet. He is lovely. I mean, he is a

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lovely, lovely dog. So we'll
see what happens, all right. I'll

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keep you updated well, And if
anybody else has stories about you know,

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Okay, Liz's mom got a cat
for her cat, so I'm not the

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only one out there who got a
pet for their pet. So if you

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have stories about getting a pet for
your pet, please let us know what

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happened. Hopefully it turned out well. I want to hear good stories.

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Please only share good stories. Positive, positive, positive. Well here's positive

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to you, but I still say
lock your door. At night, she

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sleeps in my room with me.
Yeah, alright, she starts off that

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way, so I don't know.
We'll see that. You can reach us

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at Voyage Media, at Twitter,
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can reach out directly to me at
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