Chocolate is poisonous to dogs. If you are planning to hand out candy to neighborhood kids, keep some doggy treats handy at your front door for the neighborhood pets that come along.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.