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The Landlord's Dog

Mr. Hollis leaves without a word. Next morning, an eviction notice: "Renovations." Rosa's nephew, a tenant lawyer, sends one letter. The notice comes back torn up. Pepper sleeps inside now. Hollis never speaks to you again.

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Rosa read the notice on her porch and snorted. "That man hasn't renovated anything since 1990." Her nephew's letter was two pages, very polite, very legal. In many places, a landlord can't evict a tenant as payback for a complaint. Two days later, the notice was in your mailbox in four neat pieces. Then you noticed the chain was gone from the yard. Pepper was asleep on a new plaid bed by Mr. Hollis's front window. Mr. Hollis passes you every morning and looks straight ahead. No more tomatoes. No more "kiddo." Some days it feels like losing. Then Pepper presses his gray nose against the window as you pass and wags at you, and it feels like the opposite.

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