Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Attic…
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