Question:
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One morning, Ann's neighbor Tracy found a lost dog wandering around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on the dog. Ann said that she could watch it only for the day. Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers , and put them in mailboxes. Meanwhile, Ann went to the dollar store and bought some pet supplies, warning her two sons not to fall in love with the dog. At the time, Ann's son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was recovering from a heart operation, was 21 years old. Four days later Ann was still looking after the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog threw itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley dashed into the boys' room where Ann found Jack suffering from a heart attack. Riley ran over to Jack, but as soon as Ann bent over to help him the dog went silent. "If it hadn't come to get me, the doctor said Jack would have died," Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to keep it. The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter recognized his lost dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started crying, and told him, "That dog saved my friend's son." Peter drove to Ann's house to pick up his dog, and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, "Maybe Odie was supposed to find you, maybe you should keep it."
1. Where did Tracy find a dog?
2. What did Tracy ask Ann?
3. What did Ann say?

Numbered answers:
1. elementary school
2. keep an eye on the dog
3. she could

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I have a friend who is a princess of the piggies. No, really! She lives in a piggy castle and has piggy gowns and piggy balls and a piggy carriage, though no piggy crown. She loves being a princess, but sometimes it gets boring. There's only so much fun to be had walking around a castle. She likes to cook too. So sometimes, she goes to the kitchen. She has a lot of fun in the kitchen making new foods. She likes to pretend she's a cook! Someday she wants to be a piggy princess cook! One of her favorite things to cook is pea soup. She loves soup, and pea soup most of all, even if tomato is pretty good too. She doesn't like vegetable or chicken soup at all. She grows her own peas, mushes them up in the soup, and then stirs it all up with a spoon. She also cooks it on the stove. She loves to cook, and I love to eat. We're best friends!
1. What is my friend?
2. Of whom?
3. And where does she live?
4. And what does she have?
5. And what else?
6. Anything else?
7. And what doesn't she have?
8. What does she enjoy?
9. Is it always fun though?
10. Where does she walk?
11. What else does she enjoy doing?
12. Where does she occasionally go?
13. What does she do there?
14. What does she pretend?
15. And what does she aspire to be?
16. What's her favorite dish to prepare?
17. What other type does she enjoy?
18. And what ones doesn't she?
19. What does she grow?
20. What does she use to stir?

Numbered answers:
1. a princess
2. the piggies
3. in a piggy castle
4. piggy gowns
5. piggy balls
6. a piggy carriage
7. a piggy crown
8. being a princess
9. No
10. around a castle
11. Cooking
12. the kitchen
13. make new foods
14. she's a cook
15. a piggy princess cook
16. pea soup
17. tomato
18. vegetable or chicken soup
19. her own peas
20. a spoon

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Judy Gross says she doesn't know how much longer her husband can make it. But she's scared it won't be long.

"Alan is resolved that he will not endure another year imprisoned in Cuba, and I am afraid that we are at the end," she said in a statement released Wednesday.

Her comments come on the five-year anniversary of the day when Cuban authorities arrested her husband, Alan Gross, who'd been working as a subcontractor the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Alan Gross, 65, is serving a 15-year sentence for bringing satellite communications equipment to Cuba as part of his work as a State Department subcontractor. He was convicted in March 2011.

"After five years of literally wasting away, Alan is done," Judy Gross said. "It is time for President Obama to bring Alan back to the United States now; otherwise it will be too late."

The Cuban government has called for a prisoner swap: Gross for three imprisoned Cuban intelligence agents serving lengthy federal prison sentences in the United States.

But the U.S. State Department has nixed that idea, saying Gross was an aid worker merely trying to help Cuba's small Jewish community get online despite Cuban government restrictions on Internet access.

Frustrated by the diplomatic impasse, Gross has threatened to kill himself if he isn't freed soon.

In July, he said goodbye to his wife and daughter and has refused to see them again while he's imprisoned.

He's also refused to meet with U.S. diplomats in Havana in protest over the slow progress to free him.
1. What was Alan's job?
2. for who?
3. Where is he now?
4. Can he leave?
5. How long has he been stuck there?
6. Why doesn't he leave?
7. Who took him into custody?
8. What did he do to prompt that?
9. Why did he do that?
10. What has he claimed he'll do to himself?
11. Why?
12. When was the last time he saw his family?
13. What did he tell them?
14. How old is he?
15. How long is his prison term?
16. Who is Judy?
17. What is her fear?
18. When did she tell the press that?
Numbered answers:
1. subcontractor
2. State Department
3. Cuba
4. No
5. Five years
6. Because he is imprisoned.
7. Cuban authorities
8. bringing satellite communications equipment to Cuba
9. To help Cuba's small Jewish community get online
10. To kill himself
11. Bypass another year imprisoned
12. Over 5 years
13. Goodbye
14. 65
15. 15 years
16. His wife
17. He will kill himself soon.
18. On the fifth anniversary of his arrest