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Infact, she insists on it. Her toy box runneth over with coveted Barbie dolls sporting the G.I. Jane haircut she gave them mere minutes after acquiring them. Books spill off her shelves, and her closet is full of monogrammed sweaters she likes to color coordinate with whale-and-heart-patterned turtle necks. She can watch all the television she wants, even in her bedroom. But noooo, that is not enough. She wants more.  \n“Please may I have a dog?” she inquires.  \nOh okay, enough of this crap. The girl is me, and I certainly never inquired. It was more like pleading, begging, rationalizing, and reasoning. But it was all for naught. Ever since she was chased home by a Boston Terrier when she was three, Judy’s sworn off anything with whiskers and fur.  \n“Absolutely not,” she’d say.“Don’t ask me again.”“But Moooooooooooom,” I whined.“I’ll die if I don’t get a dog!”  \nMom said I was more than welcome to have a hundred dogs when I was grown up and no longer living in her home. Then she’d send me away to go play with my hermit crab.  \nBut I really wanted a dog. Like, cried every time a character on TV called their dog. Like, meandered away from Mom in the grocery store to pull bags of Alpo off the store shelves and drag them to the cashier. Like, take my stuffed animal dogs for walks around the neighborhood, scratching their heads and cooing sweet nothings into their stuffed ears. (I know. Weird.)  \nAnd yet fiberfill was so unfulfilling. So I did what any not-quite-normal seven-year-old would do. I gave myself a dog.  \nEnter Woofie, my ageless, loyal German Shepherd companion. Woofie and I spent all day together playing fetch in the front yard, practicing tricks in  \nApril 2 0 0 9 | DRaGOn 374 81  \nC ON F E S S I ON S OF A F U L L-T I M E W I Z A R D  \nthe living room, curling up with a Nancy Drew book under my canopy bed. He walked me to school every morning and I made a big production out of sending him home when I got to the crossing guard outside of school.  \n“Go home, Woofie,” I commanded.“See you at lunch time! We’re having liverwurst!”(I loved liverwurst, which to me was even weirder than talking to an imaginary dog.)  \n“Who you talking to, dear?” Miss Eleanor, the crossing guard would ask.  \n“Duh,” I answered.“My dog.”  \n“Tell your mom you want to go see a nice man named Dr. Havner, okay? I’ll give you his number.”  \nI did pass that message on to my mother, who patted me on the head and responded,“Next time you see Miss Eleanor, tell her Woofie peed on her lunch.”  \nThen she sent Woofie and I to play in the backyard.  \nFast forward several years and a few real dogs later to my D&D game, where I’m asking New DM for the 19th time that week if Tabitha can have a familiar.“Please?” I begged.“All the other wizards have familiars.”  \nTabitha did what any not-quite-normal wizard would do. 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