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dig=dog

[Salamander]

When I was -very- young [maybe 4 or 5] I saw this black and white short movie about a little orphan boy who finds a stray dog in the streets of Paris.
[It was silent and there was absolutely no dialogue]

The child is overjoyed with his new friend and his pitiful life now has meaning and joy because he has something to love and someone to share it with.

Long story short, the boy eventually discovers that the dog had gotten separated from its owner....a blind, crippled beggar.

Although it tore him apart, he did the right thing and gave the dog back.
Through his own tears of sorrow and loneliness, he watched the *other* tears of joyous reunion between the little dog and the blind man.

I cried like a fool over that and apparently it really stuck with me because I have not forgotten the story in 40 years.
[and probably, in ways I'll never comprehend, made me the way I am, today]

[Twinkie]

If you could see our yard, you would say "dog - dig" same difference . . .