The Reward Poster
You delete the photo and avoid that grocery store. A week later, Ellie's teacher posts show-and-tell photos online. Ellie and Noodle, front and center.
A message arrives: "That's my dog in your daughter's photo."
What do you reply?
The story so far
For seven days, life was perfect. Noodle learned to sit. Ellie taught him to high-five. You drove the long way to a different grocery store and never once looked at a telephone pole. Then Ms. Duarte posted the class photos on the school's page: thirty-two cheerful kids, and right in the middle, Ellie holding up Noodle like a trophy, both of them grinning. The comments were all hearts. Then a direct message to you, from a man named Greg: a photo of Max as a puppy, the same torn ear, the same white sock on one paw. "I think you have my dog." Ellie is in the next room, reading Noodle a bedtime story out loud, doing all the voices.
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