Jacques, age 15

Call me Jacques. I was born back in the last century, on December 5th of 1998, so I remember how Bellaire and West University Place were back then. The squirrels were so thick in the trees they would just fall off and and pretty much land right in your mouth! Cats and dogs played together. I remember my two closest cat friends, Penelope and Truffle. A fine pair, but they moved out to California and don’t ever write, so I don’t rightly know as to what happened to them. My mother, Lady, lived right across the street from my house in Bellaire. She would just walk over any old time she felt like it, and we would take some afternoon bone in the summer garden, right next to the pool. Nowadays, of course, a dog can’t go anywhere without a leash. I’ve seen a lot of changes in my day, and, believe me, I’ve been against pretty much all of them.

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