LUCILLE HAS a little hairless Chuwowee dog named Minnie Mutt. She carries it around in a tooled leather handbag hanging from a bicycle chain around her neck. Minnie barks relentlessly, micturates, chews the chain and struggles to get out of the purse. Lucille pets her gently and coos: “Minnie Mutt. Good girl.” The people on the metro bus complain so much, the driver has to place Lucille and Minnie on the no-fly list.

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