Donna Cornachio | The Sun Magazine

Donna Cornachio

Donna Cornachio is a freelance writer and travel-book editor. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, with her husband and three children.

— From August 1999
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Man Who Hated Dogs

After all these years, my father’s rich, deep voice still filled me with a mixture of fear and awe, even over the telephone, “I don’t know why you people want a dog,” he said. By “you people,” he meant not just me and my husband, but everyone everywhere who has ever had the slightest inclination to get a dog.

August 1999
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