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unusual friendship, but they had been friends ever since Jasmine had brought Truffle to the farm as a tiny runt.When Truffle was younger, she would chase balls too, but now she preferred to spend her days rooting around under the apple trees.
Jasmine’s sheepdog, Sky, nuzzled into her knee. Jasmine looked down at the handsome black- and-white collie.
“Good boy, Sky,” she said. “You’re tired now, aren’t you?”
She and Sky had just returned from a long walk in the woods.They didn’t normally stay out this late, but it was a Friday and the beginning of the May half-term holiday, so Mum hadn’t fussed about bedtime.
Sky licked Jasmine’s hand and looked up at her adoringly. Jasmine ruffled the fur on the top of his head.
She had found Sky as an abandoned puppy, ill-treated and starving, and had nursed him back
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