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...of him. The little girl, four years old at the time, was frozen in a trance, too afraid to run, or even tremble. A scream was caught in the back of her throat that would not escape. A lower growl from her assailer at last set it free.
"Mommy!" the girl shrieked. The dog pounced with a sickening half-growl and half-yelp, and all Asa remembered was hitting the concrete with the dog's hot breath on her neck.
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"MY FAVORITE ANIMAL has to be dogs." "Hmm?" Asa was jerked out of that nightmarish recollection as she realized her friend Jenny was talking to her.
"Hello?" Jenny joked. "Anybody home in there?"
"Sorry," Asa replied, shifting her crystal-blue backpack to her left shoulder. "I was just thinking."
"About what?"
Asa shrugged. Not many people knew about the incident of her and the aggressive dog, even though it had been all over the news when it had happened. Asa rubbed her throat gently, running her finger along the familiar five-inch-long scar that ran along the side of her neck, curving into the middle of her throat. Jenny, like most people who knew Asa, had in the past asked where she got the scar, but Asa always replied evasively, "In an accident." So far, she hadn't met anyone who had pushed to know the full story.
"Well, you have to see my neighbor's new puppies," Jenny went on with her dialogue. "There are three of them, two boys and a girl, and they are just the cutest things in this world."
"What?" Asa interrupted, totally lost in the conversation.
"Weren't you listening to me previously?" Jenny chided playfully. "I was talking about Ella's three puppies."
Asa shuddered slightly at the thought...
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