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Miss Maggie

Major Margaret Houlihan aka Maggie was the perfect girl dalmatian.  She could do a Lana Turner-type pose for a camera . . . she nodded her head in confirmation when someone called her beautiful.  But beind those gorgeous eyes, she was a rough-and-tumble dalmatian. She dug up the azaleas in the backyard (twice!). She pulled [...]

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Colonel Potter

My first dalmatian. I got Potter (yes, a M*A*S*H name) my first week of graduate school at Ohio State.  I also got a red convertible that week. Life was good. Potter got me through two graduate degrees, a divorce, and two moves.
Potter was particularly handsome. Some holidays–he got more mail than I did!

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