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Five-Dog Epiphany: How a Quintet of Badass Bichons Elisa Spungen Bildner Each has tasted bitterness--from theIN FIVE DOG EPIPHANY, MARIANNE LEONE writes about the joy that can be summoned after a great loss, when you look into the eyes of another damaged creature and know that your happiness is a mirror and an echo and a prayer, and that the little soul reflecting all that energy is happy too, at last. This memoir is a moving and sometimes surprisingly funny exploration of grief and the mutual healing that can occur between rescue dogs and people who have