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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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It felt like a noble gesture at the time, and I was in the mood for an adventure. I volunteered to drive a crippled dog from my home in Montana to the New York City apartment of Ah Rich young man, a Rockefeller who had adopted it on the Internet. His first name was Clark. We met over the phone. I called him as a favor to my wife, Maggie, the Humane Society's president, who was trying to help out the people who had rescued the poor creature after she was run over by a car. They feared in trusting her to a commercial airline because of her perilous condition. And though Clark had told them that he owned a plane, he said it was tied up in China with his wife, Sandra, an international management consultant. When I heard about this, I offered to play the middleman in part as a way of assuaging my guilty conscience over the death of one of Maggie's shelter dogs. I'd hit with my pick up truck just a few months earlier, but I had another reason altogether for wanting to speak with Clark C. I was a writer. Even more importantly, a writer between books and I had a hunch I was going to meet a character