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    I Loved Them First
    I Loved Them First
    I Loved Them First
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    I Loved Them First

    By Karen Phelps

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    These poems celebrate a sacred connection. They are proof that the unconditional love of animals can sustain the human heart through all lifes seasons.
    - Lorraine Ash
    Life Touches Life: A Mothers Story of Stillbirth and Healing

    The emotional themes are poignant and powerful throughout this heart-warming anthology. Karen gives voice to the devotional ties between people and their companion pets. I enjoyed reading and savoring every single poem.
    -Karen Rippstein,
    Creative Writing Teacher, Hawthorne, NY

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInspiring Voices
    Release dateOct 8, 2012
    ISBN9781462403325
    I Loved Them First
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    Karen Phelps

    KAREN PHELPS, MA, is a, award-winning writer, editor, photographer, and quilter. Karenthia, her kennel, has won many awards in the four decades breeding and showing pure-bred collies. She is a native of Westchester County, New York where she lives with her two dogs and cat, Ginger.

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      I Loved Them First - Karen Phelps

      Copyright © 2012 Karen Phelps. All rights reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4624-0333-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4624-0332-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012918608

      Inspiring Voices rev. date: 10/03/2012

      Contents

      Dedication

      List of Photographs

      Acknowledgements

      I Loved Them First

      Black Wind

      Trigger

      Horse Crazy

      Golden Boy

      Faster, Faster

      Yardstick

      The

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