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Part 125 of One Hundred Word Worlds
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Doozy's Dazzling Day
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2025-12-08
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Nick, Meet Poppy

Summary:

Nick has worked on and off volunteering at shelters, even kept it up when he moved to Leeds. He's grown stronger in his resistance to wanting to simply adopt all of the dogs that give him puppy dog eyes. There are so many if them.

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Happy Birthday, dearest. I do hope that you have an absolutely fabulous day, and you may see someone you recognise in your story. I hope she'd approve.

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The run up to Christmas is an extra busy time at the shelter where I still volunteer. It may have started, as a way to make sure that I had a life and connections outside Charlie and the Paris Squad. I never gave it up entirely. 

I refuse to be the person who adopts a puppy for a partner. So I'm being professional, and wishing. 

We finally live together, years of distance, pining and trying have culminated in a shared space. 

I say goodnight to the dogs and go home. 

A sound. 

“Char, what did you do?”

“Nick, meet Poppy.”

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