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as they are an example
of good eating manners.

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Along with the tribal chiefs,
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the dogs enjoy a special
treatment too.

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lt's maybe some sort
of gentle feeling,

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something unexpected
among so much cruelty,

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so, we'd be happy
for having discovered it.

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Or maybe, these are just
the dogs of the chiefs.

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Then we wouldn't have
discovered anything new.

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But the country
where compassion for dogs

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goes beyond the limits of
human imagination is America.

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We are in the canine
cemetery of Pasadena,

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in the outskirts of Los Angeles.
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The same that inspired
Evelyn Waugh's famous book.

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lt's one of those
windy and sunless days

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when the sky of California
turns to the color of despair.

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Here, the memory of
the deceased, all of them,

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is so happy, and this
place is yet so pathetic,

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that we could shed a tear or two
over the small graves

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of these venerable creatures.
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Over their dead ancestors,
these dogs behave in a way

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that only to human standards
is irreverent.


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