Five days after returning from my Halifax pick-the-puppy tour, I got this comment on my blog from Meg, a close friend of Carol’s since high school:
Hank: I’m on a ferry from PEI to Nova Scotia and talking to a couple with a toller… great dog….showed them photo of your new puppy…they think his father is their friend’s dog. Is the father Liam, owned by Mary? It’s a small world.
Yes, Meg, Kemba’s father (sire, as we say in the dog biz) is Liam. Yes, it is a small world. And while we’re at it, check out these other Twilight Zone-esque small-world coincidences as they relate to dates, dogs, and Hermans . . .
April 7, 1916: The day my mother, Stella Rubenfeld Herman, was born
April 7, 2014: The day Ricky William Herman died
May 8, 1990: Birth date of Kemba Walker, star of UConn’s incredible 2011 championship season, Herman family hero, and the person for whom Kemba the Toller was named
May 8, 2003: Birth date of Ricky the Beagle
August 12, 2003: The date Ricky was brought home from his breeder in Templeton, MA
August 12, 2014: The date Kemba the Toller was born in Ardoise, Nova Scotia
Doo-doo-DOO-doo, Doo-doo-DOO-doo . . .
LOOK FOR A NEW BEAGLE MAN POST EVERY THURSDAY. OR PRETTY CLOSE TO THURSDAY. COULD BE WEDNESDAY. OR FRIDAY. LET’S NOT GET TOO OBSESSIVE HERE . . . 
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