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SWEET TEA CHRONICLES<br />
<br />
<br />
wasn't quite ready to get a dog after all.”<br />
One final dog was brought out for her con-<br />
sideration. He was young, scruffy, recently<br />
found on the side of the road. He looked at<br />
her with intelligent brown eyes.<br />
“Poor thing had almost no hair on his body,<br />
just a little wisp on his tail and these adorable<br />
fluffy feet,” she recounts. “But the instant I<br />
looked into those soulful brown eyes, I knew<br />
we belonged together. There was an instanta-<br />
neous connection, like he knew me and it was<br />
meant to be.”<br />
She named him Baxter, after her pal<br />
Ruffles' talented musical son — Southern<br />
Pines' own Buddy Holly, whose hair is always<br />
an adventure.<br />
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