I met a man in a park who had a dog I was interested in and we got to talking about dogs, about Ecuador, where he had worked, and where I have been part of a dog rescue project, and finally, about Zimbabwe.
His name is Stephen Clawson and he has also worked in Zimbabwe, where his father, Dr. Joseph Clawson donates much of his time performing restorative surgeries for children with cleft lips and cleft palates. The charity he volunteers for, Operation of Hope, has performed hundreds of operations on severly deformed children.
As we stood in the park and dogs romped around us, Stephen told me a story you might appreciate, about a boy named Beloved.
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