So Mollie spent a lot of her first year going out and about with me to all the different happenings in Algonquin, IL, summer '96. We went over to Lee's house a lot, who is the one that drove us to the pet store in the city, and over to Mike's who was Lee's neighbor and had at least 13 cats. We also went to the spectacle that is Algonquin Founder's Day, which included a parade, a carnival, bands, parties and fireworks. When Mollie was tired I carried her, or we stopped and rested and watch...

When it finally got settled that Mollie was going to stay, I had been chastised for getting my little sister involved in such misbehavior, and for behaving with complete irreverence to household policy. Amy and i were both informed that if it weren't for Amy's love of the puppy, the puppy would be gone, because my love for her was discounted by my impulsive behavior, while Amy's love for her was considered more relevant due to her young age and innocence. It was a very complicated formu...

When I got Mollie, she was about three months old. We drove to the South Side of Chicago to the pet store that had the cheapest puppies in the paper. I know, i know, puppy mills and all kind of horrors, but I was a 17 year old disturbed kid with addictive behavior, and even though my sister is a genius she was only 12. So we got one of my shady older guy friends to drive us to the pet store we found in the classifieds. We get there and it is really small. There are cages all lined up ...