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…showed last 75 words of 583 total…so I assured myself. I always left Birch Lake with a sense of comfort. Although my visits now are few and far between, I still go back to the lake and visit Spike when I can. Spike and I have both grown quite a bit over the years, he more so than I. He barely came up to my knee the day we met, and today I need a ladder to touch his bristly head.