Jasper had one job this morning. Walk from the front door to the end of the road. It took him twenty five minutes. Not because anything was wrong. Because there was a leaf. Then a smell only he could detect on a lamppost we've passed four hundred times. Then a very important decision about which side of the path to walk on, reconsidered twice. I stood there in my coat, half checking my phone, half just watching him work through it all like it mattered enormously. To him, it c

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