Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron He was the type of dog most people would have given up on. And perhaps most noticeably, he was mentally unstable. And he wasn’t only crazy, but also big, tipping the scales at nearly 100 pounds. In my experience, Labs tend to come in two flavors: mellow or crazy. They ended up with Marley, a crazy, loveable Labrador Retriever. John and his wife, newly married, decided to sharpen their parenting skills, which they thought they would soon need, by purchasing a dog. Life would never be the same.” That description from the slip cover, obviously written by an editor, does not quite do justice to the back-story, but does give a general idea of the premise for this story. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. “John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. It just so happened that this dubious honor went to Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. To that end I walked into a Los Angeles Barnes & Nobles on Saturday and decided I would buy whatever was listed as being the current top seller among non-fiction. I recently decided that I would attempt to read not only books that are published and widely read within the Christian community, but also in the mainstream.
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