The day M and I met Alfie

Staffordshire, Friday October 26 2018

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(This post follows on from Prologue.)

A photograph of a tricolour Border Collie on Gumtree, this was the first time I’d ever used that platform. The ad read he needed a home through no fault of his own.

“Through no fault of your own” I said, peering into the screen, falling in l…