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Pets Helping Out Around The House

This week’s Cuteness Overload is dedicated to Humphrey, an adorable chocolate lab who really needs to start pulling his weight around the house. I hate to say it but the guy is a total deadbeat. For the past seven years, he’s been unemployed and crashing rent-free on my friend Stacy’s couch. Last weekend, we ordered pizza and (as usual) he didn’t even offer to chip in. “Ok,” I thought. “Maybe he’s just not hungry.” But then he stared at us the ENTIRE time we ate until everyone was uncomfortable.

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This Old House

My parents lived in the same house for my whole childhood. By the time they got divorced, I was in my twenties, in law school, and my brother was in college. Neither of my parents needed a house at that point, so they sold it and moved into separate apartments.