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es un libro verdaderamente conmovedor (para mi) ya que lo que a algunos les puede parecer tonto , a mi en verdad me gusto, ya que trata de la relacion entre un hombre y su mascota. deo confesar que hay una parte treiste, pero el libro es en realidad bueno.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In memory of my father, Richard Frank Grogan, whose gentle spirit infuses every page of this book
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In the summer of 1967, when I was ten years old, my father caved in to my persistent pleas and took me to get my own dog.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
...the expression on his face gave him away. It almost screamed out, Good God, man! For the sake of future generations, we must contain this genetic mistake at all costs!
I had quickly reverted to my premarriage (read: slovenly) lifestyle. By the power vested in me as the only adult in the house, I suspended the Married Couple Domesticity Act and proclaimed the once banished Bachelor Rules to be the law of the land. While Jenny was in the hospital, shirts would be worn twice, even three times, barring obvious mustard stains, between washes; milk could be drunk directly from the carton, and toilet seats would remain in the upright position unless being sat on.
As with so many of his misdeeds, this one was not malicious or pre-meditated. It wasn’t as though he had disobeyed a command or set out to intentionally humiliate me. He simply had to go and he went. True, at the wrong place and the wrong time and in front of all the wrong people. I knew he was a victim of his own diminished mental capacity. … The dog was defective. How could I hold that against him?
Marley was a funny, bigger-than-life pain in the ass who never quite got the hang of the whole chain-of-command thing. Honestly, he might well have been the world’s worst-behaved dog. Yet he intuitively grasped from the start what it meant to be man’s best friend.
Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things – a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in the shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
He became part of our melded fabric, a tightly woven and inseparable strand in the weave that was us. Just as we had helped shape him into the family pet he would become, he helped to shape us, as well – as a couple,l as parents, as animal lovers, as adults. Despite everything, all the disappointments and unmet expectations, Marley had given us a gift, at once priceless and free. He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most of the other pieces fall into place.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
La conmovedora e inolvidable historia de una familia y su maravillosamente neurótico perro, quien les enseñó lo que realmente importa en la vida.
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Marley -un juguetón cachorro de labrador- llegó al hogar de los Grogan cuando éstos eran una pareja de recién casados. Al tiempo que crecía hasta volverse un musculoso adulto de casi cincuenta kilos, también los acompañó en la evolución de la propia vida familiar: un embarazo frustrado, tres hijos, dos traslados de dominilio, cambios laborales... Y aunque no era fácil copnvivir con un animal activo, optimista y leal, pero también un verdadero huracán destructor, Marley llegó a convertirse en un elemento crucial de la familia.
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