How to kill your mother (with love)

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Val heard an aspiring dog groomer had moved into the neighborhood and was looking for what I guess you’d call canine guinea pigs, a hybrid species that sounds like something straight out of the Island of Dr. Moreau.

Should, she asked the girls, they take Snickers?

The pros and cons were weighed: We’d be helping a neighbor. It would be free. She has new ideas. But what if