for years.
Eventually, they stopped trying.
Their house on Sycamore Drive had three bedrooms, and two of them had always felt painfully empty.
So Henry agreed.
Over twenty-two years, they raised fourteen police dogs.
Every one of them graduated.
Every one went on to work somewhere.
Some with Monroe County.
Some farther away.
One became an airport detection dog in Philadelphia.
Lorraine kept scrapbooks for all of them.
Puppy photos.
Newspaper clippings.
Christmas cards from handlers.
And every time the day came to return one of them to the academy,
