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    No Pets Allowed
    No Pets Allowed
    No Pets Allowed
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    No Pets Allowed

    By M. A. (Monette A.) Cummings

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      No Pets Allowed - M. A. (Monette A.) Cummings

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of No Pets Allowed, by M. A. Cummings

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: No Pets Allowed

      Author: M. A. Cummings

      Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29139]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO PETS ALLOWED ***

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      M. A. Cummings (Monette to her friends) returns with another hauntingly persuasive story of a Tomorrow that may not be as gleaming as we hope. Her recent story, THE WEIRDIES, apparently delighted some and startled others—and this in Los Angeles! What's happening there?

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      by M. A. CUMMINGS

      He didn't know how he could have stood the four months there alone. She was company and one could talk to her ...

      I can't tell anyone about it. In the first place, they'd never believe me. And, if they did, I'd probably be punished for having her. Because we aren't allowed to have pets of any kind.

      It wouldn't have happened, if they hadn't sent me way out there

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