The Sixth Sense
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“She has a right to live!” I shouted at him inside. “I have a right to keep her! You can’t keep denying me—I have somewhere else to go! I have somewhere else to go!”
“Go, then,” he said inside me.
But he didn’t say that. I almost ripped the family structure apart, and he would not allow it. “No dog is worth the breakup of a family,” he said, and he meant it. He really meant it, because he let me defeat him.
Oh, God! I sat down on a fire hydrant and pressed my fingers to my eyes. I don’t understand …
Gently the loop of the leash moved on my wrist as Diana ranged. Sniffing sounds—she seemed to pick something up, and then she stood very still.
“She doesn’t even know how to play,” said Phillip. I opened my eyes. He was standing there before her. She had a dusty old red sock in her mouth. Her eyes were merry and uncertain, her tail waving low. Phillip made a gentle snatch for the sock. Diana averted her head, looking unhappy.
He caught the sock and tugged softly. Almost without meaning to, it seemed, Diana tugged back. Her eyes started to smile again; her tail waved gently. Maybe this was funny?
“You can keep her?” Phillip asked, pulling harder on the sock. Diana braced. Her tail sank again.
“Yes,” I said. I must have sounded more defeated than anything else. Phillip delicately skirted that, not noticing, not ignoring.
“Then let’s take her up to the athletic field,” he said, “and teach her how to play.”
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The quotation at the beginning of “The Sixth Sense” come from Horsemanship, by Waldemar Seunig (New York: Doubleday & CO., 1956.)
Copyright © 1988 by Jessie Haas
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