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with Steve, he started the shelter and turned it into a charity. That was almost exactly ten years ago now. This was the farm his family had run for years and years, you see. And when he died he left the house and all the buildings to the charity in his will, with a little bit of money to pay the manager – that’s me. The problem is that the buildings are pretty old, and shabby, and we’ve not got a lot of spare money for fixing them up. I don’t know how we’re going to get that roof mended, but we really need to.” She shook her head anxiously. “Sometimes I worry that we’ll have to close.”
“But you couldn’t!” Emily gasped. “There isn’t anywhere else for all the animals to go!”
“I know. We always keep going somehow.” Lucy smiled at her. “Something always turns up.”
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