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Let me get some food and other things together for you. Are you a vegetarian like me?" she says.

"No, I'm not."

"Too bad. My parents are meat-eaters, so I can send you some. I hope you don't mind me using the term 'meat-eater.' I don't mean it in a derogatory sense, though I don't like that y'all eat the flesh of animals. Anyway, I'll send a bag over."

"Do you want me to come there to get the bag?"

"No, I'll send Mishy," she says confidently. "My dad trained her to go pick up beer from the Dunbar store down the road. That's why he named her Michelob. I didn't care for the name and call her Mishy. Anyway, she knows your house, so I'll send her later with a bag around her neck. She's so fast, no goon will catch her."

"That sounds great."